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The Internet Immigrant

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Therese M. Mulvey, MD

Sometime in the last few months "it" happened. I am not sure when it occurred but, it did. I officially became a dinosaur. Yesterday, I was called an "Internet Immigrant." An Internet immigrant, to distinguish the term from that of an Internet native, is a person for whom the Internet and all of its trappings have always been present. For this group of 20 to early 30 somethings, the Internet has been omnipresent. There is no need to claim discovery or invention of the Internet for them—it has always been. For me, typing is a skill . . . [Click for More]