Digital Immigrant
Categories: Tech
An old person.
Really, it's anyone who was born before 1985 and remembers what life was like before the digital age. You know, when we had to walk three miles in the snow to send a smoke signal.
The coin was termed by writer Marc Prensky in 2001 and is not without controversy. In fact, many of those so-called digital immigrants were the people who invented much of the digital technology.
The opposite of a digital immigrant is a digital native. Hello, millennials. We heart you.