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Frenchie here. Digital natives is a word we were always taught is en-US. Fun to read that you doesn't know it as a international user. Typical french startup bu

Frenchie here. Digital natives is a word we were always taught is en-US. Fun to read that you doesn't know it as a international user. Typical french startup bullshit ? This depict children born in 80s, 90s and supposedly comfortable with computer work and data as they were born amongst them.

zabzonk 5y ago
I dunno. I'm a native Brit (birth and language), and I haven't come across it before now. But I'm not a Web maniac.
- 0des 5y ago
  This is HN, a safe space. We are all web maniacs. That's how we got here. Sure there are a few suits hanging around with ironic hoodies and smart looking eyewear but mostly just us nerds. You are among friends here, let your phreak flag fly (it is -p or --phreak BTW)
edu 5y ago
We use it in Spain too.
TameAntelope 5y ago
As an en-US person, I can say confidently we do not use it in daily speech. I can intuit what it means, but I've never been taught it or been in a conversation where it was used in any way that stood out enough to create a memory.
- vladvasiliu 5y ago
  It's pretty much a media thing here, too. I've never heard anyone use it in normal conversation.
bradknowles 5y ago
The term "digital natives" has been around for many years. I don't know the official definition of the term, but I've always thought it was someone born in 1995 or later, where they never lived in a world without online services like AOL, and later Google, Facebook, etc.... Where they never lived in a world that existed before the World Wide Web. Where they never lived in a world without being able to access data online through something at least as fast as a 56k baud modem. Where they never lived in a world without cellphones and portable home phones. They may not have had all these things themselves, but they knew people who did. And this future is also unevenly distributed, of course.
sdoering 5y ago
In Germany the term is used relatively often. At least in the circles I frequent. Especially in the context of who the target audience is (in marketing, when thinking about UX and so on - the prototypical agency/consultants/client talk intermixed with a lot of BS and important sounding words). So no idea if it is in general use here, though.
simongray 5y ago
It's also a fairly common term in Denmark ("digital indfødt").
dSebastien 5y ago
OP here. I'm French speaking as well. It's indeed surprising; I thought this would be understood by everyone ;-)

zabzonk 5y ago

I dunno. I'm a native Brit (birth and language), and I haven't come across it before now. But I'm not a Web maniac.

0des 5y ago
This is HN, a safe space. We are all web maniacs. That's how we got here. Sure there are a few suits hanging around with ironic hoodies and smart looking eyewear but mostly just us nerds. You are among friends here, let your phreak flag fly (it is -p or --phreak BTW)

edu 5y ago

We use it in Spain too.

TameAntelope 5y ago

As an en-US person, I can say confidently we do not use it in daily speech. I can intuit what it means, but I've never been taught it or been in a conversation where it was used in any way that stood out enough to create a memory.

vladvasiliu 5y ago
It's pretty much a media thing here, too. I've never heard anyone use it in normal conversation.

bradknowles 5y ago

The term "digital natives" has been around for many years. I don't know the official definition of the term, but I've always thought it was someone born in 1995 or later, where they never lived in a world without online services like AOL, and later Google, Facebook, etc.... Where they never lived in a world that existed before the World Wide Web. Where they never lived in a world without being able to access data online through something at least as fast as a 56k baud modem. Where they never lived in a world without cellphones and portable home phones. They may not have had all these things themselves, but they knew people who did. And this future is also unevenly distributed, of course.

sdoering 5y ago

In Germany the term is used relatively often. At least in the circles I frequent. Especially in the context of who the target audience is (in marketing, when thinking about UX and so on - the prototypical agency/consultants/client talk intermixed with a lot of BS and important sounding words). So no idea if it is in general use here, though.

simongray 5y ago

It's also a fairly common term in Denmark ("digital indfødt").

dSebastien 5y ago

OP here. I'm French speaking as well. It's indeed surprising; I thought this would be understood by everyone ;-)