You're leaving out the entire second half of emo's progression, MyAimIsTrue. I mean, I understand you want to keep it separate from today's "emo" and also injecting your own personal opinion into the matter, but like it or not, if you're trying toi make a semi-objective emo FAQ you can't cut your list off just before Jawbreaker's "Dear You" and pretend that Sunny Day Real Estate isn't emo. I really think people should talk about first wave emo (which is what you're talking about), second-wave emo (which starts with Jawbreaker's "Dear You" and continues through Sunny Day Real Estate (and "Diary" even came out before "Dear You"), Braid, the Promise Ring, Saves the Day, and maybe even early Get Up Kids. And what we have today should probably be called post-emo. Or emo-metal (or is that what people use emocore to mean?)
Or if you have better terminology than the wave thing I just proposed, go to it. But like it or not, emo means these later bands just as much as the old hardcore ones.