Gen Z has started calling the 1990s "the late nineteen hundreds"
AndyMasley · x · 2026-11-11
Blogger Andy Masley notes that over the past few weeks he has overheard several different Gen Z people referring to the 1990s as "the late nineteen hundreds"—a small but striking linguistic shift in how a generation perceives time.
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