Generations
Generations
"Generations" are arbitrary. They're just labels we use to obliquely talk about cultural trends. But since Pew Research has become the latest to weigh in, and everyone loves a good pointless argument over definitions...
xkcd presents A Definitive Chronology of the Generations
1730-1747 The Founders 1748-1765 Generation ƒ 1766-1783 The Adequate Generation 1784-1801 Generation Æ 1802-1819 The generation we cut a lot of slack because they produced Lincoln 1820-1837 The Gilded Generation 1838-1855 The Second-Greatest Generation 1856-1873 Generation – • • – 1874-1891 The kids who died in the Gilded Generation's factories and mines 1892-1909 Oops, one of us is Hitler 1910-1927 The Greatest Generation 1928-1945 The Silent Generation 1946-1963 Baby Boomers 1964-1981 Generation X 1982-1999 Millennials 2000-2017 Generation 💅 [nail polish emoji] 2018-2035 Zuckerberg's army 2036-2053 The Hovering Ones 2054-2071 Spare Parts 2072-2089 More Gen-Xers somehow 2090-2107 The Paperclip Machines 2108-2125 The Mixed Bag (produced 4 Lincolns, 1 Napoleon and 2 Hitlers) 2126-2143 The Procedural Generation 2144-2161 Generation Ω 2360-2378 Star Trek: The Next Generation

This comic is making fun of the various names we give "generations" while also predicting some future names. The release of this comic coincides with the Pew Research Center's recent announcement that they have decided where the Millennial generation ends .
Each generation listed is exactly 18 years long, which is the approximate length of each "generation" anyway (given that coincidentally, there are exactly 54 intermediate years between the end of World War II and the New Millennium). A number of the entries are parodies of the terms "Generation X," "Generation Y," etc., by substituting other letters or characters that would seem emblematic of the time period.
"Generations" are arbitrary. They're just labels we use to obliquely talk about cultural trends. But since Pew Research has become the latest to weigh in, and everyone loves a good pointless argument over definitions...
xkcd presents A Definitive Chronology of the Generations
1730-1747 The Founders 1748-1765 Generation ƒ 1766-1783 The Adequate Generation 1784-1801 Generation Æ 1802-1819 The generation we cut a lot of slack because they produced Lincoln 1820-1837 The Gilded Generation 1838-1855 The Second-Greatest Generation 1856-1873 Generation – • • – 1874-1891 The kids who died in the Gilded Generation's factories and mines 1892-1909 Oops, one of us is Hitler 1910-1927 The Greatest Generation 1928-1945 The Silent Generation 1946-1963 Baby Boomers 1964-1981 Generation X 1982-1999 Millennials 2000-2017 Generation 💅 [nail polish emoji] 2018-2035 Zuckerberg's army 2036-2053 The Hovering Ones 2054-2071 Spare Parts 2072-2089 More Gen-Xers somehow 2090-2107 The Paperclip Machines 2108-2125 The Mixed Bag (produced 4 Lincolns, 1 Napoleon and 2 Hitlers) 2126-2143 The Procedural Generation 2144-2161 Generation Ω 2360-2378 Star Trek: The Next Generation
