List of generations

Generations are extended periods of time that are connected with pop cultures. Many characteristics of these generations are the music, fads, inventions, and wars pertinent to each of them.

These generations all last around 15 years, but have gotten shorter as times and technology change faster.

20th-21st century America

1883-1900

• The Lost Generation was a term originally used to identify a group of American literary expatriates living in Paris in the 1920s and 1930s; it is now used more generally to describe the generation of young people who came of age in the United States during and shortly after World War I. Very few Americans are alive and well in this generation.

1901-1924

• The Greatest Generation is the worldwide generation of Allies that served in World War II. This group overlaps with the G.I. Generation, the generation of veterans that fought and won World War II, later to become the Establishment, and the parents of children who would later become the Baby Boomers (1901-1924).

1925-1945

• The Silent Generation was the generation born between the two World Wars, who were too young to join the service when World War II started. Many had fathers who served in World War I.

1946-1964

• The Baby Boomers were the generation born just after World War II, a time that included a 14-year increase in birthrate worldwide. Baby Boomers in their teen and college years were characteristically part of the 1960s counterculture, but later became more conservative, eventually gave birth to Generations X and Y. Most academic and demographic literature uses 1946 and 1964 as the cutoff years of the Baby Boom generation.

1954-1965

• Generation Jones, first labeled by U.S. social commentator Jonathan Pontell, is the younger portion of the Baby Boomers. Their early life experiences hold more in common with Generation X than with the Boomers.

1964-1980

• Generation X is the generation born between approximately 1964 to 1980, and connected to the pop culture of the 1980s and 1990s they grew up in. Other names used interchangeably with Generation X are 13th Generation and Baby Busters. Most of this generation are children of The Baby Boomers and The Silent Generation. Those born before 1973 spent most of their teen years in the 1980s.

1981-1994

• Generation Y, also known as the Echo Boom and Generation McGuire although Millennials or Internet Generation is becoming the more common parlance for this generation. These are usually the children of Baby Boomers and people in early Gen X. Generation Y grew up with many world-changing events including the rise of mass communication, the Internet, and the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The Y Generation is known as a Culture War "battleground" with growing disagreements between conservative and progressive perspectives. 1976-2001 is the widest possible definition commonly cited, but generally speaking this generation starts in the early 1980s and ends in the early 1990s.

1995-2008

• Generation Z, New Silent Generation or Homelander Generation is the youngest of generations thus far. These are the people that are born in the mid 1990s to mid 2000s and will reach adulthood in the 2010s and enter the workforce around 2015-2025. This group of people are generally thought to be instant minded. They became very familar to computers, cellphones, Ipods and video games at much earlier age than Generations late X and all of Y thus, leading to most of Gen Z prefering a more conected and "LCD Screen" life-style . They are usually raised by Generation Jones or Generation X and sometimes have Brothers and Sisters of Generations Y and Z, and are usually raised by soccer moms and helicopter parents, influencing their decisions of their lifestyle.

List of Generations Chart

Year intervals loosely based on birth years as given by Strauss & Howe
(for the actual intervals used by Strauss and Howe, see Generations)

Century	Era	Generation	Sub-Generations	Time Table	Notable Occurrences
19th century
	Missionary Awakening (American Civil War and Industrial Revolution)
				1843 - 1859	Introduction of the Light bulb/Industrial Revolution
			Missionary Generation	1860 - 1882	American Civil War, Reconstruction, Dawn of the Automobile
		Lost Generation		1883 - 1890	Experienced WWI in adulthood
20th century
			Interbellum Generation	1891 - 1900	Roaring 20s
	Jazz Age (Great Depression and World War II)
		Greatest Generation	G.I. Generation	1901 - 1924	Experienced WWII in adulthood
			Silent Generation / Beat Generation	1925 - 1942	Experienced WWII in childhood, Civil Rights Movement
		Baby Boomers	Boom Generation / Hippie	1943 - 1960	Space Exploration, First Modern "counterculture"
	Consciousness Revolution (Vietnam War / Counterculture / Cold War)
		Generation Jones		1961 - 1964
				1965 - 1974	Rise of the Arcade/Atomic Age
		Generation X	Baby Busters	1965 - 1980	Experienced Vietnam War/Cold War
			MTV Generation / Boomerang Generation	1975 - 1985	Rise of Mass Media/end of the Cold War
	Culture Wars (War on Terror / Accelerating Internet/Rise of Next Generation TV)
		Generation Y
			Echo Boom (Generation McGuire)	1978 - 1990	Rise of the Information Age/Internet/War on Terror/Iraq War/Rising Gas and Food Prices
			iGeneration	1991 - 2007	Rise of the Information Age/Internet/dot com bubble
21st century		New Silent Generation		1995 - 2007	Digital Globalization

References

• http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/05_50/b3963001.htm