The Silent generation: people born before 1946.
The Baby Boomers,:people born between 1946 and 1959.
Generation X: people born between 1960 and 1979.
Generation Y: people born between 1980 and 1995.
Why do we call the last one generation Y? I didn't know the answer to that but found a cartoonist who explains it all so elegantly and eloquently below...
