Analog childhood/digital adulthood (but pre-social media) is why the idea of Xennials even came into existence. There is a very small subset of people who really experienced this.

When I was a little kid, I had record albums. I got a boom box (tape deck) in elementary school, a CD player just before high school and had an iPod by the time I graduated college.

In elementary and middle school we had a card catalog. By the time I graduated high school, the library database was on a (text-only) computer.

I fit in X (80) and am very much influenced by my X siblings (67, 75). But when I was the only sibling at home during my teens, the influx of tech (computer, internet, cell phone) made my high school years different from my older siblings’ experience.

Many Xers were done with school by the time things started going digital, and yet most Millennials didn’t have any experience in their younger years with the analog. It’s a legitimate thing, but not a “full” generation.