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The first generation of Digital Natives (DNs) is now growing up. However, these digital natives were rather late starters, since their exposure to computers started when they could master the mouse. In the early years of the new millennium, the penetration of computer technology was low in most homes [58] [64]. Laptop computers were slowly becoming mainstream but still, they were strictly secluded to the workplace. The main mobile device in existence was the mobile phone but still, it was just a glorified wireless telephone [265].
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Dingli, A., Seychell, D. (2015). Introduction. In: The New Digital Natives. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-46590-5_1
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