Saturday, June 14, 2008
Domain theft will slow me down but not stop me…
When I had my webseed site everything was good. Then I transfered the hosting of it to insider hosting. It went ok for a year. Then they didn’t renew the domain name after I paid them to do it. I lost the domain and it was snapped up by a domain guzzling bleepedy bleep. When I tried to get it back from him for a reasonable amount he banned the wayback machine from listing its archived versions of the site when it was mine. I have lots of the posts on a storage drive somewhere in my office. I will find it and move as many of these posts as seems appropriate to this new site.
We're Ba-aack
A later born baby boomer is creating this site in order to further the understanding of the distinct group that is the later portion of the baby boom – born during or between 1955-1964. Check out the Evolution of a Concept page for basic information about the later portion of the baby boom.
The Evolution of a Concept
Long ago at the turn of the century several people started to realize that there was something amiss in our culture with how people of our age – people born in the late 1950s and early 1960s – were perceived.
I started a list at that time called late boomers and shortly after that started a website called late-boomers hosted as a .com account. This gave rise to a newsletter that I would post on site and send out. No matter what the format was, there was a community and some sort of a publication focused on defining the cohort or global age-grade that comprised the last “half” of the baby boom and as a consequence, define the first half as well rather than compressing two very different groups into something government demographers once described as the post-WWII baby boomer and that in the late 1970s began to be called Baby Boomers.
I’m continuing this ‘net place here on This Later Boom site as a place to write about the unique perspective that developed within our cohort from being raised and developing in an incredibly unique time of dramatic change. We were too young for Woodstock or The Draft or military service in Vietnam. Our early psyches were shaped by the assassination of leaders, the promise of equality, near instantaneous world wide information exchange, environmental depletion, species extinction, moon landings, and war broadcast into our living rooms. These are very very different circumstances than were experienced even by our siblings who are only a few years older than us.
I started a list at that time called late boomers and shortly after that started a website called late-boomers hosted as a .com account. This gave rise to a newsletter that I would post on site and send out. No matter what the format was, there was a community and some sort of a publication focused on defining the cohort or global age-grade that comprised the last “half” of the baby boom and as a consequence, define the first half as well rather than compressing two very different groups into something government demographers once described as the post-WWII baby boomer and that in the late 1970s began to be called Baby Boomers.
I’m continuing this ‘net place here on This Later Boom site as a place to write about the unique perspective that developed within our cohort from being raised and developing in an incredibly unique time of dramatic change. We were too young for Woodstock or The Draft or military service in Vietnam. Our early psyches were shaped by the assassination of leaders, the promise of equality, near instantaneous world wide information exchange, environmental depletion, species extinction, moon landings, and war broadcast into our living rooms. These are very very different circumstances than were experienced even by our siblings who are only a few years older than us.
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