A FORUM FOR BOOMERS AND GEN Xers! LET’S REMINISCE! 🎸 📚 📺 🛴🏫📞

I’ve been noticing that there are NO forums for people who were born between 1946-1964(Baby Boomers) and Gen Xers(born between 1965 and 1983). Let’s reminisce and talk about how our generations changed everything in this world 🌎 and how we still matter in the age of technology and A.I. Start posting! ✍️ 

Of course you guys can’t relate - this forum is not aimed at you. This is the ONE forum where people over 40 can talk about the things that matter to THEM.

Well, I'll stick around to see what they think of us lol.

I appreciate you youngsters posting but yes, you are much, MUCH younger. Since you were nice enough to visit, why don’t you post about the things that are truly important to YOUR generation? I just wanted the older folks( like me and @HiramHolliday and @SirTrashPanda and @mikekalish) to know that they haven’t been forgotten on the OTF page.

that's because 99.9% of otfers are >2 years old

I remember party lines - it was “uh oh, other people are hearing what we’re saying on the phone 📞!” I didn’t even have a cellphone 📱 until 2009 and a computer until 2003!

I remember when i didnt read that

That’s a recent development - just a year ago, there were a lot of us on the OTF. And it was great because people of all ages were talking and sharing ideas and the forum page was much livelier and more fun then.

You’ve got that right.

Youngest Gen X-ers are '79. ... '80. and younger are considered millennials. They even invented crossover group, namely "Xennials": '77.-'85.

Me also remember of my first PC: 9. July 2003. First android at the beginning of 2014. Symbian some years before...

It's insane how as we get older, time passing by faster and faster. Generations we consider younger, quickly becoming older for those 5-10 years even more younger...

"Baby-boomers" are actually parents of youngest Gen X-ers and older millennials...

Absolutely, @nik1111. I’m a total music junkie so my question is, how much of today’s music will even be remembered 5, 10, 20 years from now. Will we care about Taylor Swift in 20 years? 10 years? The Beatles, Michael Jackson, Stevie Wonder, Bruce Springsteen came of age in the 60s and 70s and are still discussed constantly and are still played constantly.

@Pegusu True values remains untouched through time. Even among youngsters when we se someone listening to REAL music, we almost instantly know their parents are also more than ok! Music, movies, comic-books, broadcasts, everyday things, way of life, speed etc etc... many variables but all in one...

I still want to remember the names of some of the movies from that era and there is even a specific site who matches its members according to their fav movies, think of idea for similar site in other domains...

No offense to all you Swifties out there. Taylor pays homage to the people who influenced her, such as Stevie Nicks and Avril LaVigne, and she listened to her parents’ music growing up and really learned a lot from these legendary artists.

The "Boomer" generation started on Jan 1, 1946. I was born 2 days later, so I'm one of the oldest boomers around. I graduated high school in 1964. In high school, I never once saw marijuana or knew anyone who used it. In fact, I never attended a party where there was beer. I graduated college in 1968. I saw lots of beer but no weed. During that time, everyone knew what a woman was, and whether they were one or were attracted to them. Those were the choices. I grew up in a home with two parents, and all the kids in my neighborhood had two parents. During the summer, we spent all day playing sandlot baseball. I remember before we even had a TV, and when we finally got one, it was black and white with no remote. We got 3 channels, and they were only on from 5PM to midnight.

Kids who graduated high school could read, do math, and knew American history. If you wanted money, you got a job and earned it. Anyone who wanted to work could find a job. I worked in an ice cream store during high school for $.80/hour it paid for my dates. My dad worked two full time jobs and ran a small business from home. He also painted our house when needed and did all the other home maintenance, with my help.

Cars were death traps with no seat belts or air bags or "crumple" zones. Dogs ran loose in the neighborhood and getting bitten by a neighbor's pet was a common occurrence. We swam in any body of water, including the water that occasionally flooded our street and we drank out of the garden hose rather than go inside.

It was the 1950's and it was a very innocent time for many of us. At the same time there were places in the US where black people couldn't enter a restaurant or a rest room that wasn't designated for them. It wasn't perfect. We've solved the problems that existed then, but since then have developed far worse ones.

My son is 21 and his favorite singer is Roy Orbison and he LOVES doo-wop( the Beatles killed that off!) Now, this is not MY kind of music - my son is EXTREMELY retro. However, he has always loved Linkin Park and Gaga.