Hmm, I've always wondered this myself. Now I know.
*The Silent generation, people born before 1946.
*The Baby Boomers, people born between 1946 and 1963.
*Generation X, people born between 1964 and 1979.
*Generation Y, people born between 1980 and 1995.
Why do we call the last one generation Y? I did not know, but a caricaturist explains it eloquently below...Learned something new!
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