I remember those days when we just had 3 TV stations. Sure, we had the UHF stations like PBS but unless you were watching Sesame Street, Electric Company, Bob Ross or Lawrence Welk nobody really watched those UHF channels.

There was no Cartoon Network. All the cartoons were on Saturday morning between 6am and 12 noon.

Nickelodeon came along in the 80s & we watched YOU CAN'T DO THAT ON TELEVISION. That's where the green slime at the Nick Awards comes from.

YOU CAN'T DO THAT ON TELEVISION wasn't even an American show.

Then cable came along. That's when MTv actually played music videos, except they only played white people's music videos until Sony threatened them into playing Michael Jackson's videos.

If you wanted black videos, you had to turn to VH-1.

Or BET. Remember when BET had "Teen Summit?"

Then they got rid of that and had shows like CITA.

Video Soul was good, too, with Donnie Simpson and Sherry Carter.

Where IS Sherry Carter?

BET got rid of folks like Sherry Carter and put people like Rachel on the air. Rachel was ok but Sherry Carter was better.

I see Gen Z talking about some "WE gave you social media, Gen X so YOU need to bow down to US."

Naw. Gen X gave you the internet in the first place.

Gen X is the ONLY generation in this country that has experienced extreme changes in technology and has adapted to each and every one. PERIOD.

We've gone from 3 channels in our childhood to 100s of channels STREAMING.

We've gone from 45 records to 8 tracks to cassettes to CDs to MP3s to streaming.

We've gone from writing a letter to emails to text messaging.

25 years ago, there were very few websites. Our Twitter was Internet Relay Chats (and you had to know how to access them).

We had AOL 2.0 that came in the little disc in the mail. Everything was dial up.

Cell phones were just starting to get accessible by the masses 25 years ago. And most of the cell phones were huge. If you didn't have it installed in your car, you had a bag and a magnetic antenna to stick on your car.

There was no unlimited data. You better wait until 7 or 9pm to make your calls and you bet not run over your minutes.

Most people still had landlines 25 years ago and cordless phones were the hotness.

Voicemail? Voicemail was a recorder you bought and attached to your phone.

And you had to press RECORD over and over to get the message "just right." I think we had Jade (R&B group with box braids) on our voicemail.

25 years ago, unless you had the CD player installed in your car you had to get that adapter that looked like a cassette tape and hook it up to your CD player to play CDs in your car.

Now you just stream it over your phone if you don't have satellite.

Hip Hop? Generation X

So when you're listening to Lil Meat, Bo Peep or whoever you're listening to these days, just know Generation X built that.

Jeff Bezos was born at the very end of the Baby Boom but his upbringing was Gen X.

Amazon & all these other delivery services? Just know that's a Gen X thing.

Otherwise you'd be ordering your stuff from the JC Penneys or Sears catalogue like your Baby Boom grandparents did.

All these colorful nail polishes? Gen X built that. Before Hard Candy & other companies came along in the 90s, founded by Gen X individuals, the only nail polish colors you got were red, pink, frosty pink, frosty white and frosty champagne. All by Revlon or Sally Hansen.

A Gen X individual said "Um these colors are boring" and mixed her own colors up and everyone else jumped on the bandwagon.

YouTube: Founded by 3 guys all in Generation X.

Google: Founded by 2 guys born in 1973 (Generation X)

Even this TWITTER that Generation Z claims was brought to you by Generation Z was founded by @Jack, who was born in 1976 (Generation X).

So Generation Z can claim Generation X is a bunch of old fogeys that don't understand what's going on in today's world but the fact is, most of the tech Generation Z enjoys was invented/founded by GENERATION X.

Now put that on your social media and spread it.