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by waterlesscloud 4980 days ago
The trend has been named for at least a decade.

Oh, I see what you did there.

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The point is that the word "hipster" has been in continuous use to describe alternative youth culture since the Beats.

http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=hipster&yea...

As wikipedia explains, the term has been used to describe the culture of 2 distinct decades, not the decades in between
Where does Wikipedia say that it wasn't used in the intervening decades? That's not true. Look at the ngram link I supplied – it clearly was in use. What do you think it meant?