Boing Boing Staging

Generation labels from the Puritans to Gen Y

The Wikipedia entry for the “New Silent Generation” (“a proposed holding name used by Neil Howe and William Strauss… to describe the generation whose birth years begin somewhere in the late 1990s, or in the early or mid 2000s”) has a fascinating table of the names ascribed to different generations going back to 1588 (“The Puritan Generation”).

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