The Forgotten Generation

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We called you lot Generation Y for awhile until someone came up with the Millennial label.

You narrowly missed being just another in a sequence of lettered generations.

Millennial is actually a rather choice label for a generation. From the mid 1950s through the end of the 20th century, the coming turn of the century evoked fantasies of a fabulous high-tech society with flying cars and hoverboards. Sort of like this:



The dream was a far cry from the shit sandwich we ended up getting.

But yeah, "Millennial" is a right glamorous name for a generation, all told. Definitely nothing to be ashamed of there.

Pepsi did a "Generation Next" ad campaign in 1997 that I think was targeted at Millennials. That may have been a little before they started calling you Millennials. So you narrowly missed being named after a Pepsi slogan too. Lucky bastards.

Generation Z will be the last lettered generation, for obvious reasons, unless someone comes up with a catchy label for them too.

I'm kind of thinking Billy Idol's band named Generation X was around long before they started calling us that. I don't remember it being applied to my generation before the late 1980s.