As a tech-friendly Gen Xer I still had to reach adolescence before I touched on-line communications via dial-up BBS. I had to wait until my early 20s to hit the Internet via a grad school account.
I look at myself as sort of an early-stage immigrant to the world of digital networking, where many of my fellow Xers arrived years later and you were born into it.
The dotcom boom was the economic saving grace for Xers like myself who were comfortable with tech. That technology-driven eight-year extension to the postwar economic anomaly allowed some of us to enjoy the dregs of the wine that Boomers took for granted.
