NetLingo: Digital Native
By Ben Robinson on Tuesday, May 19th, 2009 at 12:45 PM PST In Ideas and rants, The Digital Life
My fave tech-lingo site, NetLingo, has come along with another classic phrase:
digital native
as opposed to a digital immigrant
A “digital native” refers to a person who is born after 1984 and uses computers. As opposed to a “digital immigrant” –one who had to learn their way around the Internet– digital natives have always been surrounded by the culture of online technology.
Crumbs! That means I am a digital immigrant – and in fact when I think about it, there were walkmans when I grew up, PCs ran on Command Line Interface, and Mobiles ran on an analogue network – getting older is a terrible thing 
[Via: NetLingo]
By that definition some “digital immigrants” have been working online longer than the so-called “natives” have been alive. It makes no sense.