Etymology

Oregon Trail Generation

Today it means: 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. Full definition →

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The story

Coined in reference to the educational computer game The Oregon Trail (1985) that members of the generation frequently played as children.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.