Either way, the show captured the imaginations of many young television viewers in the United States and abroad and is often considered a classic piece of 1990s youth culture and Generation X. Trey Parker and Matt Stone, creators of South Park, cite the show as an influence and compared it to the blues, and met Mike Judge before the show aired.

Bubbles also maintained his freelance output, producing designs for Peter Jenner ( Ian Dury and Billy Bragg's manager ), and others, creating a prodigious output by working for such bands, musicians and performers as Vivian Stanshall, Generation X, Big Star, Johnny Moped, Whirlwind, Billy Bragg, Clover, The Sinceros, Roger Chapman, Phillip Goodhand-Tait, Dr. Feelgood, Inner City Unit and The Psychedelic Furs.

The term was popularized by Douglas Coupland's 1991 novel Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture.

The term " Generation X " was coined by the Magnum photographer Robert Capa in the early 1950s.

Describing his intention, Capa said ' We named this unknown generation, The Generation X, and even in our first enthusiasm we realised that we had something far bigger than our talents and pockets could cope with '.

The term was popularized by Canadian author Douglas Coupland's 1991 novel, Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture, concerning young adults during the late 1980s and their lifestyles.

While Coupland's book helped to popularize the phrase " Generation X ," in a 1989 magazine article he erroneously attributed the term to English musician Billy Idol.

In fact, Idol had been a member of the punk band Generation X from 1976 – 1981, which was named after Deverson and Hamblett's 1965 sociology book Generation X — a copy of which was owned by Idol's mother.

Generation X experienced the introduction of the personal computer, the start of the video game era, cable television and the Internet.

Pertinent to a non-partisan study on the 2008 U. S. Presidential election, the Population Reference Bureau, a demographic research organization based in Washington, D. C., cited Generation X birth years as falling between 1965-1982.

In the preface to Generation X Goes Global: Mapping a Youth Culture in Motion, a collection of global essays, Professor Christine Henseler summarizes it as " a generation whose worldview is based on change, on the need to combat corruption, dictatorships, abuse, AIDS, a generation in search of human dignity and individual freedom, the need for stability, love, tolerance, and human rights for all.

In American cinema, directors Kevin Smith, Richard Linklater and Todd Solondz have been called Generation X filmmakers.

When compared with previous generations, Generation X represents a more heterogeneous generation, exhibiting great variety of diversity in such aspects as race, class, religion, ethnicity, and sexual orientation.

Change is more the rule for the people of Generation X than the exception.

The U. S. Census Bureau cites Generation X as highly educated, statistically holding the highest education levels when looking at current age groups: U. S. Census Bureau, in their 2009 Statistical Abstract.

The 2011 publication " The Generation X Report ", based on annual surveys used in the Longitudinal Study of today's adults, finds that Gen Xers, who are defined in the report as people born between 1961 and 1981, are highly educated, active, balanced, happy and family-oriented.

London newspaper The Guardian cited Generation X birth years as falling between 1965 and 1982 and referred to it as the me generation ' of the Eighties.

" The Telegraph cited Generation X birth dates as falling into a longer time span ( 1965 – 1985 ), whilst the The Independent estimated an earlier range of birth dates ( 1963 – 1978 ) compared to other writers or researchers.

A BBC News article about a lack of " mid-career volunteers " in their 20s provided a Generation X age range, which, in 2007, would suggest birth years that fall between 1962 and 1982.

One Canadian author, economist and demographer David Foot, divides the generation born after the baby boomers into two groups in his book Boom Bust & Echo: How to Profit from the Coming Demographic Shift: Generation X, born between 1960 and 1966 ; and the " Bust Generation ", born between 1967 and 1979.

Currently under development, the Tin Can API is commonly referred to as " The Experience API " and " Next Generation SCORM.

Starring Denise Crosby ( best known for her portrayal of Security Chief Tasha Yar on the first season of Star Trek: The Next Generation ), the film contains interviews with Star Trek devotees, more commonly known as Trekkies.

* X has been used as a namesake for a generation of humans: Generation X, commonly abbreviated to Gen X.

Most commonly, they are simply taken from a word used in the narrative of a book ; a few representative examples are: " grok " ( to achieve complete intuitive understanding ), from Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein ; " McJob ", from Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture by Douglas Coupland ; " cyberspace ", from Neuromancer by William Gibson ; " nymphet " from Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov.

The project was established in December 1998 and should not be confused with 3rd Generation Partnership Project 2 ( 3GPP2 ), which specifies standards for another 3G technology based on IS-95 ( CDMA ), commonly known as CDMA2000.

This style of Balanced Scorecard has been commonly used since 1996 or so: it is significantly different in approach to the methods originally proposed, and so can be thought of as representing the " 2nd Generation " of design approach adopted for Balanced Scorecard since its introduction.

This is a low-resolution screenshot from an episode of the now-defunct TV series Star Trek: The Next Generation ( commonly referred to as " ST: TNG ").

This is a low-resolution screenshot from an episode of the now-defunct TV series Star Trek: The Next Generation ( commonly referred to as " ST: TNG ").

They are less commonly referred to as Skyraiders ( on Generation 2 European packaging and in U. K. Generation 2 Marvel Comics ), Jetron ( in Japan ), and simply as the " Decepticon Planes.

Nissan Philippines introduced a model with new headlights and tail lights, that was later renamed back to Sentra, or commonly referred to as N16 Generation 2.

Some of the more commonly well known English diskmags include: Hugi, Imphobia, Pain, Scenial, Daskmig ( IBM PC ), Jurassic Pack, RAW, Upstream, ROM, Seenpoint, Generation ( Amiga ), Undercover Magascene, Chaos Control Digizine, Maggie, Alive and ST News ( Atari ST ).

This communications network, commonly referred to as 3G ( for 3rd Generation Wireless Mobile Communication Technology ), can carry many traffic types from real-time Circuit Switched to IP based Packet Switched.

He is commonly grouped under the loose association of filmmakers known as the Sixth Generation of the Cinema of China .< ref name = SoC >

Generation Joshua ( often abbreviated as " Gen J " by its members ,) is an American Conservative Christian youth organization that aims to encourage the involvement of 11-19 year-olds in politics.

* Generation AO, the Always-On Generation ( or Gen AO ), was first used by Elon University professor Janna Quitney Anderson in 2012 to describe people born between the early 2000s and the 2020s whose lives have been influenced since their early childhood by connectivity afforded by easy access to people and the world ’ s knowledge through the Internet.

Younger members of Generation Y are the children of Gen Xers.

Older Gen Yers may have parents that are members of the Silent Generation.

Gen Xers and members of Generation Y were the first to grow up with computers in their homes.

* Generation X / Gen X

After the breakup of Generation X, Husk joins Banshee's militant X-Corps, along with other Gen X members, in order to keep an eye on him.

The Generation III V-8 engines replaced the Gen II-LT family in 1997 and Gen I completely by 2003.

The term Generation X or Gen X, popularized by Douglas Coupland's novel Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture, was used to describe the generation that followed the Baby Boom Generation, or those who came to adulthood in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

( Gen standing for New Generation ) which animates the wider " Young People for a United World ".

Generation X ( also known as Gen X ) was a British punk rock band, formed on 21 November 1976 by Billy Idol, Tony James and John Towe.

Three members of Gen X were previously in Chelsea along with lead singer Gene October, they soon broke away from October and selected the name Generation X ( after Jane Deverson's 1965 sociology book, a copy of which was owned by Idol's mother ).

In 1993, Neil Howe published 13th Gen: Abort, Retry, Ignore, Fail ?, a sympathetic book about the culture of Generation X.

* ' Watching, Wanting, and the Gen X Soundtrack of Gabriela Bustelo's Veo Veo ', Nina Molinaro, in Generation X Rocks: Contemporary Peninsular Fiction, Film, and Rock Culture, Vanderbilt University Press, 2007.