They did a hell of lot more than generation nothingness. Most of you could learn a thing or two from hippies, maybe then you would begin to take your country back from corporations.
I don't get this mentality. These evil corporations you speak of are simply the outgrowth of hardworking, creative people who got really successful.
Did Dell not start with Michael Dell building pcs in his dormroom? Wasn't Apple, at one time, Jobs and Wozniak messing around with computers in a garage?