What Do You Consider to Be a Zoomer?

Someone already said it; but anybody born as early as 1997 up until anybody who remembers a time before the AI revolution, as early Millennials remember a time before smartphones, early Gen X remember a time when computers were those bulky clunky things that operated for the sole purpose of sharing and processing information/data, while early Baby Boomers would've remembered a time before computers altogether.
 
Gen z is a sociological classification and zoomer is an informal term for people who experienced a certain era of the internet as kids. You're gen z if you were born between 1997 and 2010 and you're a zoomer if you played minecraft as a kid and remember a time when youtube allowed edgy content, so roughly 2000 - 2006.
 
USL said:
The internet existed but my Dad didn't grow up on the internet. It wasn't until the mid 2000s and early 2010s that the internet blew up its ubiquitous state it's at now.
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I suppose it really depends on your background. I remember having internet in the house in the '90s, when I was a toddler (yes, I have memories going back to when I was 2 years old). A lot of people had internet in the '90s and early '00s, but you're right in that it wasn't something that absolutely everyone had.

GnuAintUnix said:
Zoomers are people who grew up using phones.
Millennials are people who grew up using computers.
This means that different parts of a country can be zoomer and millennial birthplaces depending on how technology dependent the youth are.
I'd probably classify myself with you because despite being about 10 years younger, I grew up with much simpler computers. I didn't have a personal phone or a computer in my house until I was over halfway through middle school.
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You mean smartphones, right? The first ones came out in 2007. I still remember when the first iPhone came out - I was 12. There was a massive amount of hype surrounding it - and, of course, the haters came out immediately as well to insist that it would never catch on.

When I was a teenager, I had an iPod Touch and then a dumbphone and then a Windows Phone. Right now, however, I don't have any phone and I adamantly refuse to ever have a phone again. I'm probably the only person in America (and certainly the only one under 35) who doesn't have a phone.

FartmingerFuckwadCheeseSte said:
Someone already said it; but anybody born as early as 1997 up until anybody who remembers a time before the AI revolution, as early Millennials remember a time before smartphones, early Gen X remember a time when computers were those bulky clunky things that operated for the sole purpose of sharing and processing information/data, while early wizard Boomers would've remembered a time before computers altogether.
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Early millennials remember a time before smartphones? So do early zoomers. Smartphones, as stated above, came out in 2007.

I also remember the big bulky computers and I was born in 1995. Those kinds of computers lasted well into the 2000s.
 
MoonMetropolis said:
You mean smartphones, right? The first ones came out in 2007. I still remember when the first iPhone came out - I was 12. There was a massive amount of hype surrounding it - and, of course, the haters came out immediately as well to insist that it would never catch on.

When I was a teenager, I had an iPod Touch and then a dumbphone and then a Windows Phone.
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Yeah, talking about smartphones. They only became common enough to where they weren't really seen as a luxury but as a necessity after 2014 or so.
Also keyed windows phone user even doe I'd rather use linux
MoonMetropolis said:
Right now, however, I don't have any phone and I adamantly refuse to ever have a phone again. I'm probably the only person in America (and certainly the only one under 35) who doesn't have a phone.
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I wish I could afford that luxury. Nowadays you can't get a job without a smartphone and a bunch of apps, let alone a bank account.
 
MoonMetropolis said:
I suppose it really depends on your background. I remember having internet in the house in the '90s, when I was a toddler (yes, I have memories going back to when I was 2 years old). A lot of people had internet in the '90s and early '00s, but you're right in that it wasn't something that absolutely everyone had.
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Generations are defined by their general trends. Yes, there are outliers, but they are outliers because they buck the trends of the rest of the generation. A lot of people had computers, but most people either didn't or did not use them for anything past extremely basic activities. It wasn't until the mid 2000s that the internet became widely excisable to the average person, with modern search engines, social media, video streaming platforms, high speed internet, and more intuitive operating systems.
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USL said:
Generations are defined by their general trends. Yes, there are outliers, but they are outliers because they buck the trends of the rest of the generation. A lot of people had computers, but most people either didn't or did not use them for anything past extremely basic activities. It wasn't until the mid 2000s that the internet became widely excisable to the average person, with modern search engines, social media, video streaming platforms, high speed internet, and more intuitive operating systems.
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I wonder what the world will be like when the last group of people who remember a time before social media and the internet being a widespread thing end up croaking.
 
Generations are retarded, doesnt have shit to do with the year you are born, you will adopt the culture of the people around you during puberty not the culture of the people born during "x" period of time. If you take a 11 year old boy and put him in a normal highschool with a bunch of higher income "gen z" he will likely adopt the funny skidbi toilet ahh culture, if you take the same boy and instead put him a lower income high school with other "gen z" he will likely instead follow a more andrew tate grindset ahh culture.
 
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