RE: RPG naming

welllll.... maybe.  I wonder if the fascination with the old is more of
attempt to be closer, not farther, from the old folks? 
 
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Booth Martin
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From: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Date: 10/11/05 10:28:12
To: 'RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries'
Subject: RE: RPG naming
 
> From: Don
>
> Now, how do we get kids to pickup i5/os and leave lesser o/s's like
> windows and unix aside or for thier niche market?
 
You actually kind of said it yourself: you have to let them adopt it as
"theirs".  That's what a renaming would do.  It would allow the new
generation to distance themselves from the fossils (i.e., us).
 
Joe
 
P.S. Music has an added twist; it tends to cycle.  If you do the math,
Disney is for tweens and early teens, so THEIR parents are in their late
30s/early 40s, which means classic rock (70's and certainly 60's) is
nearly two generations back (if you were in your 20's during the summer
of love, you're definitely grandparent age now).  That might be why it's
okay for it to be cool again.
 
P.P.S. And then again, the other thing is that classic rock is just
fantastic stuff <g>.  That's why so much of it is sampled into rap
music.  And of course it was the Run DMC/Aerosmith collaboration on Walk
This Way that brought rap mainstream.