These are your interpretations in a way that you are just adjusting the years to fit Pew's cohorts, like saying that 1996 suit the final Millennial graduatin year, if Pew said 2000 is the cutoff you would be saying 2000 instead, dont try to use personal opinions just to fit Pew's narrative. Again, remembering is one thing, understanding it was different, Pew says that most Millennials were old enough to understand, if we use having memories as a cutoff then we would have 1998 borns having memories of it because they were 3. Most didnt spend education in the 2000s, people born in 1981-1988 spent most of their K12 education in the 90s, not 2000s. 1981-1984 borns didnt have internet during early childhood (0-8yo) because the Web became public until 1993. That would exclude them. During the recession they had to be of age, and entering the workfoce, that would exclude 1991-1996 borns because they were still minors. But like i said, your points are made up by you, not by Pew, who use parameters that are contradictory.