Generation C64

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Generation C64 or C64 generation describes those years that grew up with the first generation of home computers and PC games in the 1980s.

meaning

From 1983 onwards, the namesake Commodore 64 , with its extensive hardware equipment, made it possible for a whole generation of young people to have access to a home computer that was powerful for that time at an affordable price. Other very common models were the predecessor Commodore VC 20 from 1981 and the Atari home computer series (400/800 from 1979, XL from 1982 and XE from 1985). In contrast to the computer models intended for professional use, they were not only sold in specialty stores, but also via television stores, retail chains and toy stores and were thus in competition with game consoles . An almost identical name is therefore the Atari generation , which is derived from the Atari VCS 2600 (from 1977, successful from 1979). The age limit for the previous generation without (at least potentially available) computer games during childhood and adolescence can be set around those born between 1966 and 1971.

The generation Golf and Generation X , named after other priorities, are roughly included in the year. The C64 generation stands on the threshold from the digital immigrants to the digital natives , who have the new technologies around them from an early age.

use

The term has been in use for a long time. The response of the blogger scene to an article with the title The C64 generation strikes back on Spiegel Online by Christian Stöcker showed how broadly the identification with this term is now. The term defines a generation that is at home in the digital world and in the computer age and grew up with PCs and computer games. In the early 2000s, in particular, it was confronted with an older generation of political decision-makers who knew the Internet and computers but did not deal with it confidently and competently. The latter were sometimes criticized as Internet printers in this context . In his article in 2009, Stöcker counts 20 million people between 15 and 35 in this generation. As of 2020, the C64 generation has taken on many decision-making positions in business, politics and society and is already being put under pressure by the digital natives.

After June 2009 the term Generation C64 appeared occasionally in blogs in the discussion of copyright problems e.g. B. at file sharing and around the Internet blocking plans of Ursula von der Leyen . Die Zeit writes : “The C64 generation does not honor politics on the Internet, but politics for the Internet.” Individual Internet media use the term to designate the target group of the Pirate Party and the Greens, among other things . The Greens used the term in their 2009 election campaign parallel to Digital Native to address target groups for the network community. The youth magazine Jetzt of the Süddeutsche Zeitung, on the other hand, sees “the new extra-parliamentary opposition” in the C64 generation.

Computer magazines like Return also advertise themselves in this way. The nostalgic generation C64 are courted by the game industry; with emulators the old games of the C64 are made to run on smartphones and PCs.

supporting documents

  1. ↑ a b Thorsten Quandt, Jeffrey Wimmer, Jens Wolling: Die Computerspieler , VS Verlag, 2006, ISBN 3-531-15085-5 , p. 114 (A book about older computer players who do not belong to the C64 generation, who use the information as Delimitation used.)
  2. ↑ Generation C64: A bread box turns 25 SPON from October 19, 2007
  3. ↑ generation c64 in: szenesprachenwiki / Duden - New dictionary of scene languages ( memento of the original from March 14, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / szenesprachenwiki.de
  4. ↑ google: Generation C64
  5. ↑ Christian Stöcker: The C64 generation strikes back , Spiegel online June 2, 2009
  6. ↑ netzpolitik.org The C64 generation strikes back
  7. ^ A b Adrian Pickshaus: Auf der Piratenwelle , Zeit Online , June 11, 2009, accessed on December 3, 2018
  8. ↑ Tagesspiegel: Election campaign - on the pirate wave on Internet election campaigns and the pirate party, generation C64 mentioned on June 11, 2009, accessed August 22, 2011
  9. ↑ “3 days awake” - Greens are campaigning for the “Generation C64” in the final sprint of the European election campaign
  10. ↑ Call for election by the Greens: Letter to "Dear Netizens, Dear Generation C64, Dear Digital Natives"
  11. ↑ Freedom instead of fear: The first internet election in Germany Jetzt.de September 11, 2009, accessed on August 23, 2011
  12. ↑ Return - New magazine for the "Generation C64" on openpr.de
  13. ↑ The C64 generation. Nostalgia for the calculator. the daily newspaper September 29, 2009, accessed August 22, 2011