Its jets, coffee, computers, environmental activism and philanthropy have all been celebrated for remaking the globe.
The Pacific Northwest, long a mysterious corner of the country, stepped out of isolation and into cliché: coffee, computers and Kurt, the voice and face of grunge.
Russell C. Smith has lived in Seattle, Washington since 1987, just before coffee, computers, and Grunge music put Seattle on the map.
"Pairing records can be stolen a number of different ways, ranging from a shared coffee shop computer to an ex-lover whose computer you used to trust," writes Zdziarski.
All you need is a cup of coffee, a computer and a Wi-Fi connection.
All I need is coffee, a computer table and people who will just leave you alone.
It turns out that the 1990s witnessed not only the globalization of coffee and computer parts, but of electoral politics itself.
If they need a counselor to help them apply to college, they must hunt one down in coffee or computer rooms.
In the mid-1990's, cybercafes were a now idea, serving light food, coffee and computer access for customers willing to pay $7 to $14 an hour to surf the net or check their E-mail.
We published an article drawing attention to the huge online response to a question posed on a popular website: "What's the most intellectual joke you know?" Since then we have been inundated with tales of photons checking into hotels, Pavlov in a pub, Jean-Paul Sartre ordering coffee, and computer programmers changing light bulbs.
Today, they stand in line for a cup of coffee, a computer in their hands, plugged into the Internet.
