As Generation X aged, it shed its reputation as "slackers" who lack direction, but kept—and even reinforced—its reputation as a tech-savvy cohort. It's no wonder, considering that Generation X, during its formative years, witnessed the introduction of the home computer (in April 1976, Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs released the Apple I computer), video games (Pac-Man was released in the United States in October 1980), cable and satellite TV (the first basic cable network, launched in 1976, was Ted Turner's WTBS superstation), and, of course, the Internet.