"They're the precursor of this kind of synthesis of extrainstitutional intellectualism, native to the Internet, native to the city dweller," said the novelist Jonathan Lethem, an early champion.
The internet native experience in your browser offered a radically different vision where you never needed to "sync" new listings on eBay, where you could "share" a document instead of "send" it, and where your calendar was simply your calendar, not some frozen-in-time, frozen-in-place simulacrum of one.
Older generations look at the downside of being an Internet native and carp about how kids are obsessed with their smart phones.
ONS figures say that there are just under 500,000 deaths annually in the UK, suggesting about 1.5m deaths, principally from non-internet users due to age, who would be replaced with those turning 16 and would be "internet natives".
It is no coincidence that the majority of these new digital activists are in their 20s – internet natives, brought up in the online age, versed in the politics of revolution.
If you canvas the men and women on the top of the Clapham Omnibus, especially those who are internet natives, they are web purists who believe in the copyleft – read, improve, pass it on – theory of open access online rather than closed, copyright protected, "old fashioned" content.
The unfortunate thing about the case is that both parties are Internet natives and, Mehta especially, part of the startup ecosystem.
It exudes their keen interest in youth culture, specifically the generation described as "internet natives".
There are more internet-native ways to achieve the kinds of results Amazon and Google earned with their respective strategies.
Haze, collage, abstraction: all the central tenets of the recent array of Internet-centric and Internet-native electronic music were captured therein.
And, admittedly, PayPal are typical of many internet-native companies in making it irritatingly difficult to speak to a real person.
