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I put that term in quotes because I have similar misgivings but I haven't found another term that really captures what I'm talking about.

>it was absolutely a part of growing up - first computers, then mobile phones.

You're correct but missing an important difference, it was a _part_ of our coming of age but for people who are on the younger side of millennials it wasn't a "part" of their world, they were literally soaked in it from birth. There is difference between, "I got my first computer at home when I was 10 and then I remember a few years later when we got dial-up and then when I was 15 I got a flip phone." and, "The internet was a given in my home, computers existed everywhere, and I got a phone at 10."




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