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.




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.

[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.