I am a member of Generation X. We have no Great War, Civil Rights Movement or Woodstock to define us.
In the early ’90s, to the soundtrack of Nirvana’s Kurt Cobain singing, "Oh well, whatever. Nevermind," it seemed as though we might forever be a generation lost in obscurity.
That changed with the Internet.
I can remember a conversation with friends in the late ’90s about how the dot-com boom represented our generation’s glowing mark on civilization. With the impending bust a few years later, it seemed I might have been wrong.
Fortunately, I wasn’t. Five years after the crash and the Web is stronger than ever. And it’s companies like Google, Yahoo! and eBay – all given birth by Gen Xers – that lead the way.
The effect? Few would debate that in a 10-year span, the Internet has done more to benefit humanity than anything before it.
Generation X didn’t invent the Net. We won’t be the ones who cultivate it into bigger and better things. However there’s little doubt that history will be kind to us, the pioneers of the Web who blazed a trail for countless future generations to follow.
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October 12th, 2005 at 11:13 am
Finally, some recognition to warm us before demographic press of the Boomers and the Millenials grind us into impotent dust.
October 12th, 2005 at 3:12 pm
Excellent Joel! Most excellent!
Now that sounds like that GenX movie classic Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure.
History will most definitely record that we GenXers pioneered the early usage and exploitation of the internet for business.
The dot com bust was just a blip on the ticker. It was more of a growing pain than a death and GenXers have found a way to re-birth the internet in amazing ways.
The future’s so bright…I gotta wear shades!
October 12th, 2005 at 8:54 pm
That’s a good point, Joel. I was just thinking that in the future I would not be surprised to see the web to be added to our self evident rights:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, the pursuit of Happiness and the Web.
“The right to the pursuit of happiness and broadband access to the web.”
October 28th, 2005 at 1:52 pm
http://www.scaryinterview.com Have you seen this?
I had to change my shorts after watching this job interview.