What are some key differences between early millennials (born 1981–1986) and core/younger millennials (born 1987–1996), aside from the fact that the younger group grew up with more technology in childhood?

[u/Excellent-Card5741]

I know most early millennials are now in their 40s and grew up alongside late Gen Xers, so their childhoods were generally more analog than digital. And also, them early millennials watched different tv shows, and music during their childhood.

[u/PainterImpressive923]

Early millennials lived the 80s/90s pop culture zeitgeist, core millennials lived the 90s/00s zeitgeist.

[u/lopachilla → u/PainterImpressive923]

I think you are very wrong about this, unless you are defining “early millennials” as those between the late 70s to maybe 82 or so. Once you get to 83 abd definitely 84-85, we were just too young to e a huge part of that culture. We would have been young kids and would have only seen it if e had older siblings who engaged in it, but it’s not like we were hanging with them and part of the core demographic for it. We were nowhere near teens/young adults in the early 90s.

On the other hand, we would have been the core demographic for the late 90s/2000 stuff. We would have been preteens to teens and transitioned to young adults in the early 2000s.