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My dad has never used the internet, he is 79. He knows a lot ABOUT the internet (for someone who has never used it!) because he watches the financial news just about all day.
My mom got a computer about 5 years ago. I was shocked that she had never used one before, I had to teach her how to use the mouse. (She honed her mouse skills on solitaire!!) She is an accountant and ran a very successful business. She had a ten-key adding machine on her desk, and if she wanted reports, her secretary would run the reports, print them out, and give them to her.
When I was a kid, I loved to watch my mom use the ten-key adding machine. Her fingers would fly and she would never even look at it. I wanted her to enter some kind of ten-key adding competition. lol. They also had a telex machine in the office and they could dial a number and get ascii art on the telex. Except I guess it wasn't called ascii art back then!
Oh and despite their own computer illiteracy, they had the foresight to buy me a computer very early on. It was an IBM PC. It had four colors. I loved it. I was around 12.
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