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The 87 was his birth year.  I met him in person once

I’m smack from the middle of the 70’s, checking in at 1975. I think I more closely identify as a Xennial, even though they say I’m too old.

Your generational ID isn’t just about what year you were born , it’s a shared experience that people from that era had. Things like playing Oregon Trail in school, learning computers on the Apple II, staying out late until the street light came on. I remember where I was when Kurt Cobain killed himself, I remember when Challenger blew up. I remember when Bill Clinton and Al Gore were talking about something called the information super highway.

I don’t remember watergate, or gas embargoes, or bell bottoms. I remember everybody smoking indoors.

Internet:
The internet existed as far back as at least the 1970's but it was a strange land that only weirdo nerds inhabited up until the introduction of Netscape Navigator. 

According to Wiki, Netscape Navigator came out on 12/15/1994 so I guess mine wasn't the last HS class before the internet, that would be the next class, the class of 1994. 

Around the same time, AOL was gaining steam. 

This is an anecdotal experience but I think it helps to illustrate the RAPID change. 

During my sophomore year at Ohio State I was out with a group of guys who were in my calls (all Sophomores who had graduated HS in 1993).  We got invited to go visit a friend of mine (female but not a g/f) who had graduated HS a year behind me.  When we got over there, she and her friends (all freshman, 1994 HS grads) were all in some AOL Chatroom.  We (spohomores) had literally no freaking idea what AOL, the internet, or a chatroom were.  The ONE YEAR YOUNGER girls had to explain it to us as if they had just landed in a rocket ship.  We found it creepy. 

We (sophmores) had no interest and just wanted to go out to some bars.  It amazes me looking back that this was just completely foreign to 93 HS Grads and seemed as normal could be to people literally only one year younger.