It depends on the year for GenX, that's why there's Xennial (1977-83/85). My siblings and I (2 Xers and a Mil) grew up with rabbit ears, then cable, by high school, some households had internet or we used it at the library.
In the span of my high school years, I looked up info in an encyclopedia and printed my papers on Dot Matrix paper from a Word Processor to asking Jeeves, and laser printing from a computer by senior year. It was a weird moment in time because I had to fill out my college apps and FAFSA by hand but check out colleges websites for information. Many baby GenXers went through this.

Exactly. I dont have much in common with older GenX, just mid to late. When people take entire generations and make blanket statements it never works. There's a 15 year age gap and so many differentials to account for.

Mmm I depends. I'm the last of the GenX (1980) My siblings are 1977 (GenX) and 1982 (Millennial) respectively and we all played Nintendo pretty hard. It came out in the US in 85, which would be peek teen years for many GenX, in 85 only 4 years of Millennials had been born and would've been toddlers at best playing NES. SNES was 1990 when many Millennials would be playing it.

Baby Boomers 1946 – 1964 GenX 1965 – 1980 Xennial (microgen)1977 to 1983 (some say 1985) Millennial 1981 - 1996 GenZ 1997 – 2012 Gen Alpha 2013-2024