Demographics Page Updated -- Xennials -- January 9, 2025

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January 9, 2025: Xennials, 1977 - 1983. Wiki entry.

• coined 2014
• micro-generation: on the cusp of the Generation X and Millennial demographic cohorts
• analog childhood and digital young adulthood
• analog: "the big hand is on the 9 and the little hand ..." 
• digital: flashing digits
  
• added to ODE, 2020; added to OED, 2021
• 1977 - 1983 (1980)
  
• 14 years old: 1994 -- 
• Jeff Bezos founded Cadabra, later named Amazon
  
• 20 years old: 2000 ("Y2K")
  
• dot-com bubble burst
• Compaq iPaq: first wi-fi-enabled device
• GPS authorized by Congress for public use
  
• personal milestones
• our first daughter: 1979
• our second daughter: 1983