Millennials Age" editorial coined the phrase "Generation Y" to describe those who were aged 11 or younger as well as the teenagers of the upcoming ten years who were defined as different from Generation X. According to journalist Bruce Horovitz, in 2012, "Ad Age" "threw in the towel by conceding that millennials is a better name than Gen Y", and by 2014, a past director of data strategy at "Ad Age" said to NPR "the Generation Y label was a placeholder until we found out more about them". Millennials are sometimes called "Echo Boomers", due to their being the offspring of
Echo (computing) data sent, is also known as echoplex, echo check, or loop check. When two modems are communicating in echoplex mode, for example, the remote modem echoes whatever it receives from the local modem. Whilst local echo and remote echo are sometimes referred to as "half-duplex" and "full-duplex", those latter appellations are strictly incorrect, and are misleading (see duplex for their correct meanings). Whilst local echo is "often used with" half-duplex transmission, so that bandwidth is not wasted upon remotely echoing data from the remote end of the communications channel, it is not "the same as" half-duplex transmission. A full-duplex communications