I recently listened to a podcast with Zoomers talking about their experience of growing up with the internet as they came of age. It made me realize how different things were for my generation, the Millennials. Your “coming of age” years are when you transition from childhood into adulthood, roughly from middle school through high school and college. Those years are enormously influential on your development, as the core experiences during that period influence the type of person you will ultimately become for the rest of your life. I came of age during the 1990s and early 2000s, whereas Gen-Z came of age in the 2010s and early 2020s. The year 2005 does not seem that long ago, but in many ways the world then is unrecognizable to the world young people face today—at least online.
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T.Z. Barry 