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I use the term Xennial a lot. It’s a term for the microgeneration between Gen-X & Millenial. I grew up w/ out a phone, mailing letters, renting VHS tapes AND also the VCR. But in my teens/early adulthood we got the internet, AOL, cell phones. Analog childhood/Digital adulthood.
I also grew up in a rural place that lacked technology that was more common in the cities. If we wanted to watch MTV, we’d have to ask a friend who lived in town to video tape it & physically pick it up, because we couldn’t get cable. We got a house phone when I was in 2nd grade.
I had pen pals & walked letters to the 1 store in my village to mail them. We had to ask the store clerk to check “our box” & he would flip through all the mail & separate them from my other family members’ before handing it over. “Are you picking up your grandma’s?” ::nods head:
