[mikece]

> Boomers marketed GenX as the generation of slack and apathy...

And we spend all day on Slack at work so clearly the Amateur Radio version of Slack/IRC has to be called "Apathy"!

[TeMPOraL]

More realistically: people playing with computers in the 80s/90s didn't complain enough about this being considered "nerdy", and now instead of "bicycles for the mind", we're stuck with digital toys designed to the lowest common denominator.