I'm wondering if you're a "Gen Y'er" (or whatever they're calling that newfangled generation these days ;) Apparently the defining starting birth year for that

I'm wondering if you're a "Gen Y'er" (or whatever they're calling that newfangled generation these days ;) Apparently the defining starting birth year for that generation is 1982. I happen to have been born that year, and my preferred term for the generation is "Millennials". "Gen Y" over-emphasizes our interaction with the "slacker generation" which preceded us. Anyway, I don't think that there's much correlation between birth year and vi. With the rise to prominence of Linux and other Unix systems many many budding hackers are starting out with full-fledged command lines and honest-to-goodness Unix. And that's a beautiful thing.