Joe Moody’s Web Adventures

This blog is a response to the legendary Douglas Coupland’s 1991 novel, Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture.

Knowing it or not, Coupland’s book captured the zeitgeist of an elusive and private generation, now forever branded with the letter X.

But in 1991, the actual people to be labeled Gen X had not yet played the hand they were dealt.

Little did the world know, the young people most often referred to as slackers would soon redefine how we live, work and play.

Gen X surfed a digital tsunami wave that changed the world. They were the first kids to play video games and use personal computers; and in their adult years, they would be the architects of the New World — also known as the World Wide Web.

What seemed like a lost generation was really so immersed in their own digital revolution that there were no protesters in the streets shouting it, no networks covering it, no newspapers reporting it. It all happened online.