According to USA Today's "Talkin' Bout Your Generation" interactive, I am a Generation Xer, through and through. From Atari and Operation, to the Walkman and the fall of the Berlin Wall, products and events from my formative and teenage years are ingrained in me for life.
It's crazy (crazy only because it makes me feel old to think I have memories that are older than some folks today) to think that since my generation, there have been two entire groups of people shaped by their cultural influences: Generation Y (the Millennials) and Generation Z (the Internet Generation). What's stranger to me still is that there are people (my son included) who never knew a world without 9/11, the Internet, and cell phones.
They say the generation you are born into and your cultural experiences help to define and shape you. While I'm a technophile at heart, I am glad to have been born into a time when society was learning to be more progressive but still held onto some values; yet I'm also grateful to still be alive in a time where Skyping is the norm, but, in my childhood, was "the future."
Take the quiz to find out what generation you belong to.