try this <http://www1.soc.american.edu/students/ij/co_3/digitaldivide/ history.htm> The catchy phrase that describes the divide between the tech-savvy and those without digital skills has engendered another divide—disagreement among the experts as to who coined the term. Some claim it was a digital divide guru who worked formerly at the U.S. Department of Commerce. Others say the credit should go to a pair of former Los Angeles Times reporters. "No one really knows," says Andy Carvin, one of the coordinators of the Digital Divide Network at the Washington, D.C.-based Benton Foundation . "It's discussed several times a year on my digital divide listserv and every time someone is credited with coining it, that person posts a message saying, 'Nope, wasn't me.'" Many believe Larry Irving, the former assistant secretary for Communications and Information over at Commerce, may have coined the term. "I am certain I stole the term, but I am not certain who I stole it from," states Irving on Carvin's listserv. Jonathan Webber of the Industry Standard makes a compelling case that somewhere back around 1995 he and Amy Harmon, when both were with the LA Times, invented the term to describe the social division between those who were very involved in technology and those who were not. According to the Benton Foundation, the term was first used in discussions of the National Information Infrastructure (NII) Advisory Council by former President William Jefferson Clinton circa 1993. A recently released book by Benjamin M. Companie entitled, "The Digital Divide: Facing a Crisis or Creating a Myth," credits Lloyd Morrisset, former president of the Markle Foundation, with creating the term. Linguist Frank Dance maintains Morrisset also is unsure if he deserves the credit. Edward Lee Lamoureux, Ph. D. Director, Multimedia Program and New Media Center Associate Professor, Speech Communication 1501 W. Bradley Bradley University Peoria IL 61625 309-677-2378 http://hilltop.bradley.edu/~ell/ http://gcc.bradley.edu/mm/