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Millennial

William Straus and Neil Howe's clustering of millennials based on birth years, the generational classification was referred to as Generation Y, and muddled the fair representation of those who experienced their adolescence and cognitive-development years in step with the nascent phase of home-based Internet access technology.

While often lumped together with millennials (as defined by Straus and Howe), the developmental phase of social interaction, which involved information technology's burgeoning impact on society, was overlooked. Generation Y represented the crossroads between millennials who were well immersed in computer technology even as far as experiencing an institutionalization of computer education in academic curricula and Generation X members who were heavily immersed in broadcast media's influence and yet largely uninitiated in computer technology. Generation Y represents the link between the non-digital age society shaped by Generation X, as adolescents (MTV Generation), and the dawn of the Internet age that saw the transitioning of society to easily accessible online communities (Bulletin board system, MIRC, Yahoo! Groups, Internet forum) especially during the introduction of dial-up Internet access to households.

Gen Y entangled pop culture and digital community-building through bulletin board systems, online forums, website mailing groups, mIRC, ICQ, and other electronic modes of communication (predecessors to social media) into today's digital age.
Generation Y and Generation Z cannot be lumped together and be called Millennials; the two groups are distinct and the eggheads who said so are idiots.
by CommandereON January 19, 2018
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Millennial Generation

William Straus and Neil Howe's clustering of millennials based on birth years, the generational classification was referred to as Generation Y, and muddled the fair representation of those who experienced their adolescence and cognitive-development years in step with the nascent phase of home-based Internet access technology.

While often lumped together with millennials (as defined by Straus and Howe), the developmental phase of social interaction, which involved information technology's burgeoning impact on society, was overlooked. Generation Y represented the crossroads between millennials who were well immersed in computer technology even as far as experiencing an institutionalization of computer education in academic curricula and Generation X members who were heavily immersed in broadcast media's influence and yet largely uninitiated in computer technology. Generation Y represents the link between the non-digital age society shaped by Generation X, as adolescents (MTV Generation), and the dawn of the Internet age that saw the transitioning of society to easily accessible online communities (Bulletin board system, MIRC, Yahoo! Groups, Internet forum) especially during the introduction of dial-up Internet access to households.

Gen Y entangled pop culture and digital community-building through bulletin board systems, online forums, website mailing groups, mIRC, ICQ, and other electronic modes of communication (predecessors to social media) into today's digital age.
The millennial Generation represents Generation Z and were merely lumped with Generation Y people who were completely raised during the early emergence of home-based Internet access.
by CommandereON January 19, 2018
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Millenial Bail Bond

A friendship between millenials that is strengthened by a love of bailing on plans.
"You still down for yoga tonight?"

"Nah, sorry, I gotta bail."

"Awesome, I was gonna bail too! I'm glad we have such a strong millenial bail bond."
by paulbholt February 6, 2019
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geriatric millennial

A geriatric millennial is a millennial on the cusp. The oldest breed of millennial out there but still acts like a true millennial.
I'm 36 years old, they call me a geriatric millennial
by DarleneOliviaPope June 11, 2017
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Millennial

A member of Generation Y.

A generation being the average period it takes a human to be born, grown to adulthood and on average be expected to reproduce. A twenty year period.

This means the millennials that make up Generation Y were born between 1980 and 1999. The generation that saw the change of the millennium from the 20th to 21st century.
There is no good reason people have so much trouble identifying who is considered to be a millennial.
by Viroodiem February 26, 2019
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millencolin

they do softcore. they come from sweden. they rock.
"if you're lonely or if you're happy, feeling swell or feelin blue we might have a tune for you it's about half of an hour maybe less or maybe more, whatever it might be it's still SOFTCORE"
by matteo cipo (italy) January 18, 2004
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Millenium domes

In a nutshell a 'wonderbra'.
Looking from the outside everything looks big and exciting, much like the millenium dome.
But once inside you're massively disappointed, and soon realise that it's nothing you're going to be writing home to your mates about.
Bloke 1: Epic knockers!
Bloke 2: it's a farce, they're millenium domes.
by Jaques le'cube March 6, 2008
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