The Internet Generation

[Ben Zimmer]

On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 12:28 AM, Ann Burlingham wrote:
>
> I saw an ad for the movie Catfish on tv tonight, in which they used
> the phrase "the internet generation". Searching the ADS-L archives, I
> found the phrase only in a CNN press release being quoted in 2003.
> Google gives me 142,000 hits. It seems a particularly apt phrase, but
> is it just not sexy enough to get much usage? Or is it gaining ground?

Seems rather quaint now. Don Tapscott came out with _Growing Up
Digital: The Rise of the Net Generation_ way back in 1997. Tapscott
shortened "Net Generation" to "N Gen," which never caught on like,
say, Gen X/Y/Z.

--bgz


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