I was born in 1983.  This means that according to demographers I'm both a part of Gen X and a Part of Gen Y, a group also dubbed "the Millennials."  Generations are a tricky business and I would venture to say that people born in the late 70s and early 80s are really a strange micro-generation. I have no idea what we should be called, but I'm a fan of "The Oregon Trail Generation," because, frankly, we certainly don't fit the general descriptions of either: