Lets get this straight STOP calling us BOOMERS!! which generation do you fall into?

4 Dimensional · Nov 18, 2023

DJCandle said:
Missing the Xennials generation. (1977 to 1983)

Xennials - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

That should be stretched to 84/85, imo.

APOPHIS · Nov 18, 2023

Older millennial squad.

Dannyblueyes · Nov 18, 2023

4 Dimensional said:
That should be stretched to 84/85, imo.

The previous generation should be defined by the ones who gave birth to you. So until 8-year-olds start having children it shouldn't be used at all.

DJCandle · Nov 18, 2023

Dannyblueyes said:
In my personal experience it has always been hard to buy a house and wages have never been livable. The idea that younger people have it even worse is horrifying.

Complete and utter nonsense but gives fabulous insight to your POV.

We’ll agree to disagree and keep it moving.

Chiyo · Nov 18, 2023

alexw said:
yeah and it makes sense
when bgol was in its prime we were all in our late teens/early twenties
now we're all 40 and over

What was the prime in your opinion?

I think theres a few ways we could view prime.

Obviously I cant speak of the very early days because when this site was created I was like 8 maybe? :lol:

but from a technology standpoint I would have to say it reached a high point from what I see in the late 00's.

Technology had reached a point to where you could download relatively quickly(56k was the norm for most black people in the south before this point), we had an advent of proto-tube sites like zShare and Mega where you didnt even have to download vids anymore either, yet could watch them from a browser(Thanks Slam).

There was a ride range of characters, more than 1 female was on here, knowledge drops, and educational drops were everywhere. JD Walker had multiple programming topics which included information I used to get my first internship(which led to the career I have today). People were trying new things too, and even when the shit didnt stick(grown up clean forum/chatrooms/sistas online ect) it was still new and exciting. How much of the prime ending was it us changing? I know I didnt post for like 4 years or so when I graduated college and started really working. Obviously the blunt and other shit was weird, and HNIC to this day still blames dudes running off women for the vibe changing, but in the end it was probably just life happening to us.

I will say this forum, at that time, was probably the only black community on the internet to this day where if you took advice it would have been life changing....and also the same place where 2 threads below it would be the funniest ock in history of a nigga that had been asking for it for YEARS. That was BGOL at its prime.

alexw · Nov 18, 2023

Chiyo said:
What was the prime in your opinion?

I think theres a few ways we could view prime.

Obviously I cant speak of the very early days because when this site was created I was like 8 maybe? but from a technology standpoint I would have to say it reached a high point from what I see in the late 00's.

Technology had reached a point to where you could download relatively quickly(56k was the norm for most black people in the south before this point), we had an advent of proto-tube sites like zShare and Mega where you didnt even have to download vids anymore either, yet could watch them from a browser(Thanks Slam).

There was a ride range of characters, more than 1 female was on here, knowledge drops, and educational drops were everywhere. JD Walker had multiple programming topics which included information I used to get my first internship(which led to the career I have today). People were trying new things too, and even when the shit didnt stick(grown up clean forum/chatrooms/sistas online ect) it was still new and exciting. How much of the prime ending was it us changing? I know I didnt post for like 4 years or so when I graduated college and started really working. Obviously the blunt and other shit was weird, and HNIC to this day still blames dudes running off women for the vibe changing, but in the end it was probably just life happening to us.

I will say this forum, at that time, was probably the only black community on the internet to this day where if you took advice it would have been life changing....and also the same place where 2 threads below it would be the funniest ock in history of a nigga that had been asking for it for YEARS. That was BGOL at its prime.

2002-2009

LordSinister · Nov 18, 2023

Gen X wasn't handed shit. We are the official latch key, no helmet or seat belt, every vaccine having, survived crack and aids generation. We are the last black men who had fist fights in the streets and ended up lifetime friends.

tpotda · Nov 18, 2023

Chiyo said:
This forum is clearly a Gen X'er spot.

As a millenial I was the first kid in my neighborhood who had AOL(~96), so I was of the first generation who's prime socialization factor through most of my life was on the Internet. In that regard we are able to see things differently than older generations who did not. Even now, in that Michelle Tucker thread, we have men who have been alive since the 70's who are so unsocialized on the internet that they cant tell this "Millenial lady" types in the exact same style as a man who is all up in that thread writing paragraphs on paragraphs, but I digress.

My millenial story:

First on the computer with windows 95 in 1996.
First on the internet with AOL same year.
Tech died when I was in middle school(dot com bubble)
We experienced 9/11 and entered the longest war(s) in American history when I was in middle school.
Was in high school when Youtube was created, it didnt even work on older computers
Had to learn to program by checking out BASIC books from the library
Graduated from High school the year the app store was created
The economy died in college(Great recession)
Intern with the explosion of modern app development(and I was lucky most kids during this time couldnt intern at all)
Graduated into a market with depressed wages(as a computer science major from Georgia tech my first fulltime salary was 47k in Atlanta.) Many kids were coming out to work at accenture for 30-35k in engineering.

I was probably the last high school class where kids having a cell phone was a rarity. Hell, my high school still had a pay phone on campus.

I will say Millenial is such a wide bucket that the differences could vary hugely between someone born in the 80's and someone born in 94. A kid born in 94 started in high school where there was an app store and an Iphone.

I'm what Gen Z calls "Geriatric Millenial" now but yeah I first started going online in 93 but didn't have a home pc yet, was going online at school library and public library. Still remember going online via Gopher besides just the world wide web.

geechiedan · Nov 18, 2023

Flawless said:
Maybe we need to cut Social Security and see how much Boomers like to work.

what do you think those 60-70 year old home depot greeters are doing??

Dannyblueyes · Nov 18, 2023

Chiyo said:
What was the prime in your opinion?

I think theres a few ways we could view prime.

Obviously I cant speak of the very early days because when this site was created I was like 8 maybe? but from a technology standpoint I would have to say it reached a high point from what I see in the late 00's.

Technology had reached a point to where you could download relatively quickly(56k was the norm for most black people in the south before this point), we had an advent of proto-tube sites like zShare and Mega where you didnt even have to download vids anymore either, yet could watch them from a browser(Thanks Slam).

There was a ride range of characters, more than 1 female was on here, knowledge drops, and educational drops were everywhere. JD Walker had multiple programming topics which included information I used to get my first internship(which led to the career I have today). People were trying new things too, and even when the shit didnt stick(grown up clean forum/chatrooms/sistas online ect) it was still new and exciting. How much of the prime ending was it us changing? I know I didnt post for like 4 years or so when I graduated college and started really working. Obviously the blunt and other shit was weird, and HNIC to this day still blames dudes running off women for the vibe changing, but in the end it was probably just life happening to us.

I will say this forum, at that time, was probably the only black community on the internet to this day where if you took advice it would have been life changing....and also the same place where 2 threads below it would be the funniest ock in history of a nigga that had been asking for it for YEARS. That was BGOL at its prime.

The prime IMO is when we still had younger members joining the board.

In 2024 there's not as much porn as the hubs and tubes. Nowhere near as many movies as your favorite streaming services. Nowhere near the social interaction of an Instagram or facebook. Gen z doesn't have the same incentive to come here that we did back in the day.

Most of us who stay here do it because we've been here. We want to maintain our friends, rivals, and stay a part of the culture that this board created.

That's why we have threads like "she's 86 would you hit?"

Pretty soon it will be "what's your favorite Sirius XM station"

"Do hurricanes really help you stay on your feet? (post your favorite mobility aids)."

"Tiskit a tasket check out my new casket."

"Who's the best up-and-coming rapper Lil Wayne or 2 Chainz?"

"All I need is two titties to her knees."

"Justice for Clovis. Black man denied early bird discount at Shoney's."

I could go on for days and probably will. It's a good way to hold up early onset dementia.

geechiedan · Nov 19, 2023

if you were born in or after the mid 70s YOU DON'T LOVE STAR WARS like Gen X loves Star Wars! YOU CAN'T LOVE STAR WARS like Gen X loves Star Wars! Period.

Fight Me!!