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My progression - Archie and gang - http://www.albany.net/allinone... which was a lot of different search engines depending upon your quest (now some sort of search engine yet still a bookmark)- AltaVista (Which was good for hacks and cracks) - Yahoo (for it's then search ability) - Google.

Edit: something didn't look right after the submit, a double check (bookmarks) it was astalavista.box.sk not altavista which was the popular search engine at the time

Yes, Altavista was better than Yahoo. I remember reading that Yahoo was a static directory, updated by humans; whereas AV had a newfangled web crawler. Anyone remember the term 'spider'? Altavista wasn't known all that well though, and it was part of my geek cred to show it to users. And usually, it found what they were looking for.

My progression - Archie and gang - http://www.albany.net/allinone... which was a lot of different search engines depending upon your quest (now some sort of search engine yet still a bookmark)- AltaVista (Which was good for hacks and cracks) - Yahoo (for it's then search ability) - Google (it's result listings then rated by the most active web pages, and sparse look).

If you POP3 your mail you understand just how badly Microsoft and Yahoo want to route your Email. I still have a handle used in my E-mailer Forte Agent hard coded by Microsoft live. (not off topic, they are fighting Gmail).

Generation X, the band, existed since 1976 The also shortened their name to Gen X and also documented here

An interesting repudiation of Gen Xers as slackers was listed by none other than David Schwimmer in 1995.

Douglas Coupland's Generation X dates from 1991 and is listed as the source of the term generation-x here

Now, I can't find a single source about Gen Xers, as in when the term was first used, but I seem to recall it being used for a long long time. Pre 1991? I can't tell you for sure. I can't even tell you for sure when the Baby Boomlet term was first used, nor when Gen-Y, what I consider the current youth generation to be, was first used. I can tell you that the "Gen-X" movement, attitude, etc, was already noticed as early as 1982. The media at the time just couldn't understand the punk movement at all. (Things got a little out of whack on a large scale right around then, teens wearing earings, dyed hair, spikes, etc.) It was also the time in the 80s that we noticed that gee, our economy wouldn't keep growing insanely, and thus the first of us to graduate college started looking at ever bleaker job prospects, getting paid barely enough to get by, with no real prospects of advancement if you happened to get a job. (Sort of one defining aspect of GenX)

But I want to say all 3 terms have been in use more than 10 years, and I would swear that Gen X was in use prior to 1991. I would love to have this nailed down, but who's to say for sure? It's been almost 15 years and predates most of the internet (there were only a couple of thousand USENET newsgroups around at that time, and the myriad BBS's, the survivors that eventually comprised FIDONET. But that's going down almost forgotten memory lanes...even the waybackmachine doesn't go far enough back for this.

Now having done the research, I do recall we were initially called the Post-Baby Boom generation, in the early 80s on some of the freakier stuff that got reported in the news. Oh well, at the very least, Coupland is not in my frame of reference when someone mentions Generation X. I always related it to the band, who's single, Dancing with Myself, was re-released on Idol's first solo album and was a big hit at my high school, anyways. So I've 100% dated myself now!:)

Just A Second is a computer store in Albany, NY that specializes in low-end computers and parts for older computers.

Imagine, an entire aisle of VT terminals. Not sure if they have that many anymore, but it was a nice sight.

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As per the front of the handout, about 2/3 of the way down, there is the following text:

YES!, please sign me up as a supporter and keep me informed about the freedom to innovate and compete in the marketplace!

COMPETE?! Oh, my dear Lord almighty! I'm printing this flyer off as we speak, filling in my info, and mailing it off -- no, wait -- FedExing it to Redmond. I mean, Microsoft needs my support to help them compete!

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These guys are local to the Albany, NY area, but might do e-mail order. They specialize in stocking old parts and systems.

Just A Second

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