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30-year reunion
2009
Generation
Xennial
You'd be about
65
Middle School
1972–1974Awkward dances and your first favorite band.
High School
1975–1979The lunch table, the hallway crush, the parking lot.
First Car
1977–1979Windows down, volume up, finally free.
College Years
1979–1983Dorm rooms, road trips, and figuring it out.
Early Adulthood
1984–1988First apartment, first heartbreak, first paycheck.
The world when you walked the stage
At the MoviesAlien
Apocalypse Now
Rocky II
On TVThe Dukes of Hazzard
Knots Landing
ESPN launches
In the HeadlinesSony Walkman debuts
Atari and the arcade boom
First mobile-phone network (Japan)
Different year?