This is great use of the Internet right here: There's a tool on Merriam-Webster's website that lets you see what WORDS were born the same year that you were.
So if you were born in 1988, you'll find out that some of the words born that year are: Channel surfing, e-book, emo, f-bomb, gangsta, gentleman's club, hyperlink, mosh pit, road rage and unibrow.
Rod is 1969: alternative school, anchorwoman, angel dust, Bollywood, bubblegum, crystal meth, DUI, ew, gangbanger, life coach, Martin Luther King Day, planetary science, semitruck, videocassette
Dinah is 1985: 24-7, 411, baby monitor, beatboxing, boy band, bum-rush, caller ID, elephant in the room, French tips, N-word, sexual predator
Alex 1989: air quotes, beatdown, cyberporn, cybersecurity, eco-friendly, gangsta rap, helicopter parent, latte, puggle, queso, right-click
Phyllis 1993: body camera, booty call, cybersurfer, DVD, dwarf planet, fashionista, mouse potato, robocall web page, website