Names of Generations/Decades

[Twisterdog]

The "Manners" thread got me thinking about this, so here you go:

Names of Generations

2000/2001-Present - New Silent Generation or Generation Z
1980-2000 - Millennials or Generation Y
1965-1979 - Generation X
1946-1964 - Baby Boom
1925-1945 - Silent Generation
1900-1924 - G.I. Generation

Names of Decades

1890s - The Gay Nineties
1920 - The Roaring Twenties.
1930s - The Turbulent Thirties or Threadbare Thirties (I've also heard the Depression Era or Depression Decade)
1940s - The Flying Forties.
1950s - The Fabulous Fifities or the Nifty Fifties
1960s - The Swingin' Sixties (I've also heard the Psychadelic Sixties.)
1970s - The Disco Era (I've also heard the Me Decade.)
1980s - The Decade of Decadence or Greedy Eighties.
1990s - I can't really find anything conclusive ... a few floating around the net are the Disaster Decade, the Lost Decade ... but I've never heard anything really used. ??
2000s - I personally think the "Naughty Noughties" is hilarious. :p




And an interesting aside ... what will we call the decade of 2000-2009? Not as simple as before, when we had "the sixties" or "the nineties". Here are some proposed solutions, courtesy of Wikipedia. Will be interesting to see which one history chooses.

aughts, aughties, and double-aughts, from aught,which, like naught, means "zero"
nils and nillies, from nil, meaning "nothing"
2Ks, from the Greek term khilioi, meaning "thousand"
ōzies and the Twenty-Os, from the practice of calling the number zero "O"
zeroes, double zeroes, oh-zeroes, ohs, double ohs, oh-ohs, and twenty ohs

[boomersooner]

Well, let's see, I'm of the Baby Boom generation born during the Swingin' Sixties.....

[Suki Wingy]

I am part of Generation Y. :)

[Twisterdog]

Well, let's see, I'm of the Baby Boom generation born during the Swingin' Sixties.....

I'm a Gen Xer ... born at the tail end of the Swingin' Sixties.

[carole]

I am a baby boomer .:)

[blue]

Gen X from 74 checking in.

[jennielynn1970]

Gen X from 70 here. Not sure that I consider myself the "disco decade, lol. I was born Jan. 9th, so I think that's close enough to claim that I'm on the cusp and have attributes from both eras in me. I know I do.

[davidpizzica]

1948, at the tail end of the "flying forties", grew up in the "nifty fifties". Maybe that explains my love for old '50s rock & roll and doo-wop music!

[Killearn Kitties]

I remember hearing the 1970s referred to as "the decade that style forgot." Looking back at old photos, I have to agree. :D

[Bengalz]

Baby Boomer here born in the Nifty Fifties:) however... I'm really a Miss Sixty chick at heart :love:

[RICHARD]

I remember hearing the 1970s referred to as "the decade that style forgot." Looking back at old photos, I have to agree. :D

Oh please.

I'd trade a miniskirt or hot pants for some of the 'style' I see woman wear today.

[kokopup]

I guess I am the Silent generation, born in 1940. I Grew up in the Nifty fifties or maybe the "last Happy days". My generation referred to the baby boomers as "Post war derelict darlings" I guess no matter what your generation, those that follow just don't measure up.:rolleyes:

[Killearn Kitties]

I'd trade a miniskirt or hot pants for some of the 'style' I see woman wear today.
Don't let those hot pants blind you to the brown and orange flowers, big purple swirls, flares, oh, and the hair!

[Pinot's Mom]

Baby Boomer - 1960 - Although my sister refuses to believe we're the same "generation" - she's one of the ones who started it all in 1946! :)

[Suki Wingy]

I remember hearing the 1970s referred to as "the decade that style forgot." Looking back at old photos, I have to agree. :D

Hey, I like 70s clothes! I wasn't around to see them in the 70s but I like vintage clothes.

[Husky_mom]

"vintage" hair was sooo funny.. LOL

[boomersooner]

I remember hearing the 1970s referred to as "the decade that style forgot." Looking back at old photos, I have to agree. :D

My husband will go to his grave, swearing he was NOT wearing a brown leisure suit in his 1976 high school yearbook!!!

[RICHARD]

My husband will go to his grave, swearing he was NOT wearing a brown leisure suit in his 1976 high school yearbook!!!

You can always count of the EVIL TWIN to get you in trouble?:D

[Karen]

According to that list, I'm a Boomer, but seeing as I got none of the "benefits" or attitudes Boomers got, I count myself as a Gen-Xer - born in the second half of 1964, and don't thing a few months is enough to make me part of one generation over another!

[Twisterdog]

According to that list, I'm a Boomer, but seeing as I got none of the "benefits" or attitudes Boomers got, I count myself as a Gen-Xer - born in the second half of 1964, and don't thing a few months is enough to make me part of one generation over another!

I understand that. In a lot of ways, I identify with the Boomer generation, too, even though I'm clearly an X'er by birth. It's because my parents were much older than my friends parents. They were both in their 40's when I was born.

So even though all my friends parents went to Woodstock, let us watch Hair and Jesus Christ Superstar with them and did the Hustle ... my parents remembered the Great Depression, were raised with no electricity or running water, and did not have a car for most of their childhoods. VASTLY different morals and values were imparted, believe me.

[Suki Wingy]

Hair is one of my favorite musicals. :)

[cassiesmom]

I've heard myself described as Gen X (1966) but also as "star X" because I was born as the baby boom was trailing off. Both of my siblings are definitely boomers.

[K9karen]

Baby Boomer here born in the Nifty Fifties:) however... I'm really a Miss Sixty chick at heart :love:

ME TOO!!!! Still a head banger

[Killearn Kitties]

My husband will go to his grave, swearing he was NOT wearing a brown leisure suit in his 1976 high school yearbook!!!

:D :D I love it. I used to work with someone who unwisely revealed that when he first started work in the late seventies, he wore a brown 3-piece suit (flared trousers, obviously), sort of coffee-coloured shirt, and a wide, wide tie with a HUGE knot. And he had a lot of hair. I spent about seven years trying to get a photograph out of his wife, but I never did manage it.

[Marigold2]

Born in 59 so this year I will turn the nifty 50. Have you heard 50 is the new 38. :p I was and am so a head banger, Zepplin, Stones, AeroSmith, Beatles, Bowie, Queen, Doors. Old but still a rocking.

[Bengalz]

Born in 59 so this year I will turn the nifty 50. Have you heard 50 is the new 38. :p I was and am so a head banger, Zepplin, Stones, AeroSmith, Beatles, Bowie, Queen, Doors. Old but still a rocking.

Could not have described it better :D:D Love, love the "new 38" and can so relate;)