Xennialism

[Hitcore]

If you were born in the late 70s or early 80s you grew up in a world that doesn't exist anymore.
You remember when friendship meant knocking on someone's door, not sending a text.
When Saturday mornings were made for cartoons, not scrolling feeds.
When happiness came from mixtapes, bike rides, and street lights telling you it was time to go home.

But here's what makes your generation different...
You were the bridge.
The last to know life without technology, and the first to grow up adapting to it.
You lived through pay phones and dial-up, and then watch the world transform into something faster, louder, and harder to escape from.
And maybe that's why people born in the late 70s and early 80s carry a certain ache... a nostalgia for simplicity.
A quiet wish that joy could still feel as easy as it once did.

If that feels like you... it's because you carry two worlds inside you.

Xennials - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Retro]

I'm a bit older than that and remember the late 70s onwards, with the 80s being the era I became an adult, so remember it well. The world has indeed changed hugely since then and I can tell you that I prefer today's internet connected world, advanced computers, much better medical technology and knowledge and a lot of other things over any past era, although in some ways pressures might be greater. Oh and despots like Trump and Putin being in power and the scurge of brexit.

Clever picture that, showing the twin towers in this context. That looks like the picture was taken in the 70s, with that blurriness and tint. Those towers were majestic, a real symbol of the modern world.

 

[Hitcore]

I'm not against advanced tech per say, I just wish we'd not lose ourselves in it so much. Pre-smartphone era the world seemed more... real.

Clever picture that, showing the twin towers in this context. That looks like the picture was taken in the 70s, with that blurriness and tint. Those towers were majestic, a real symbol of the modern world

I have recreated that exact picture in one of my videos, as a matter of fact.

To view this content we will need your consent to set third party cookies.
For more detailed information, see our cookies page.

Accept third party cookies

It features at 3:22, very briefly.
And yes, I agree that the Twin Towers in there do mark something. But while they look modern, to me they are symbolic as the final icons of the old world.

 

[AllThingsTech]

Eh well, how about life without NerdZone?

 

[Hitcore]

Very good question, actually, @AllThingsTech !

Even though NerdZone is technically originating in the 2020s, it doesn't feel like something from this decade. It has no algorithms that determine what I get to view. There are no ad systems in place that monitor me and weasle in potential purchases. It's driven by an actual person who does this for the joy of it. Very much how websites and forums were run in the early years of the internet. There is a reason why NerdZone is on its way to become Old Skool Forums, you know..

This place is of an exceptionally rare kind in 2025, and that alone should tell you enough about the state of the internet of today, and perhaps even of society at large.

 

[AllThingsTech]

Eh, the internet didn’t even exist in the 70s and 80s or was it dial up days?

 

[Hitcore]

Oh boy. Wait until you find out when TCP/IP was invented.

But with 'early days' of the internet I generally mean the 90s, when the general population got introduced to it. Early 2000s too, in some aspects as dial-up was still common. It's only since the mid-2000s when the internet commercially really took off, people started to get broadband, and saw its userbase growing from there.