Oregon Trail Generation

English

Alternative forms
  • Oregon Trail generation

Etymology

Coined with reference to the educational computer game The Oregon Trail (1985) that members of the generation frequently played as children.[1][2][3]

Proper noun

the Oregon Trail Generation

  1. (US) A transitional microgeneration born from the mid-to-late 1970s to the early-to-mid 1980s, characterized by its pre-Internet childhood and online adolescence and early adulthood.
    • 2009, Rhonda Christensen, “Forward”, in Digital Simulations for Improving Education: Learning Through Artificial Teaching Environments‎, page xix:
      Now our teacher candidates are almost 100% members of the Oregon Trail Generation. They answer email on their iPhones and play computer games on their cell phones when they are bored.
    • 2018, Kathleen Brooks, Saving Shadows, unnumbered page:
      "I'm thirty-four. I claim Oregon Trail generation."
      "What?" Ellery laughed outright. "There is no Oregon Trail generation."
    • 2021, Melanie C. Ross, Evangelical Worship: An American Mosaic‎, page 18:
      Unlike the millennial generation that followed us— the “digital natives” who can never remember a time before computers—the Oregon Trail Generation grew up on the cusp of changes that transformed modern life.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Oregon Trail Generation.

See also

References
  1. Susan A. Fletcher, Exploring the History of Childhood and Play Through 50 Historic Treasures, page 229
  2. Sylvia Sierra, Millennials Talking Media: Creating Intertextual Identities in Everyday Conversation, page 139
  3. Melanie C. Ross, Evangelical Worship: An American Mosaic, page 18
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