Prensky did not strictly define the digital native in his 2001 article , but it was later , arbitrarily , applied to children born after 1980 .
Computer bulletin board systems and Usenet were already in use at the time .
Prensky did not strictly define the digital native in his 2001 article , but it was later , arbitrarily , applied to children born after 1980 , because computer bulletin board systems and Usenet were already in use at the time .