Ok, then what’s the name for the generation born before 2001? Millennials were known as Gen Y, to follow Gen X but were renamed Millennials because we were around to witness the turn of the century. The phrase was coined by Strauss and Howe in their book on Millennials, which came out in 2000 and profiled people in their teens.
That’s what it’s like to be Jewish! My family tradition was to spend Christmas Eve driving around town looking at all the decorations. One year, we even made anonymous “awards” to put in the mailbox of the ones we like best.
Ok, then what’s the name for the generation born before 2001? Millennials were known as Gen Y, to follow Gen X but were renamed Millennials because we were around to witness the turn of the century. The phrase was coined by Strauss and Howe in their book on Millennials, which came out in 2000 and profiled people in their teens.