Who came up with "Generation ____" and "Generation ___" anyway?

[Deja Q]

"The Greatest Generation" = the 20-somethings who fought in WW2
"Babyboomers" = hippies
"Generation X" = children of the 80s who are mid-30-somethings now
"Generation Y" = in their 20s, and doubtlessly will be asking "Why?" at some juncture, perhaps?

[MiniMandaRuth]

1. I came up with the iGeneration for my gen...

Although that'll be obsolete in like four years.... oy.

[Writer]

2. Here's my opinion on this...

"Generation X" is a term invented by Boomer marketers for labeling teens and twentysomethings in the 90's as slackers. Little did they understand that X'ers were anything BUT slackers, being at the forefront of online entrepreneurship and civic engagement, such as moveon.org.

It's a false label.

[Shakespeare]

3. Author Douglas Coupland coined the term. n/t

[mitchum]

5. Actually, the term was coined in 1965 by Hamblett and Deverson...

in their defense of British Mod culture. Since Mod culture was baased on consumerism, that hack Coupland just stole the title and applied it to another group defined by their consumption patterns.

[mitchum]

4. Marketing "geniuses"

[Okiojira]

6. "Geniuses" meaning "swine"?

[mitchum]

7. Indeed!

[democracyindanger]

8. Says somebody with a corporate logo avatar

Just sayin'.