The Internet Generation

[Ben Zimmer]

On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 1:12 AM, Ben Zimmer wrote:
> 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.

And Bill Gates once suggested "Generation I":

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m3495/is_1_45/ai_59283651/


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