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Originally Posted by Andrew H.
Yeah, those definitions always change. In Douglas Coupland's "Generation X," (1991) which was the book that invented the term, he described Generation X as being those people born in the late '50s or early '60s and who basically lived in the shadow of the baby boomers, but had nothing to do with the baby boomers, even though, technically, they were probably considered baby boomers.
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Sorry, this is a late reply, but I don't see how a 1991 book could invent a term that already existed well before 1991.
Billy Idol's original band (before he went solo) was called Generation X...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_X_%28band%29
And he picked the name from another book (from 1965)...which apparently applied the term to the Mod fad of the 60s. But I think Mr. Idol pretty much gave the term the modern meaning