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*edit* wait! I just thought of someone I know who as never used the internet. In fact he's one of the two people pictured in my avatar! <------------- ![]() Last edited by Pickering; 01-31-2011 at 10:40 PM. |
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I'll be a part of the "know no one who hasn't at least used the internet" crowd. Even my 4 year nephew and 2 year old niece play preschool games now and sat on my sister's lap while she played WOW with her husband from the time they were infants. But then our family got into the whole online thing in the days of the BBS so for the longest time we were the tech support of the neighborhood, a thing that has continued into my current job. Our IT guy is in the Caribbean and so if anyone has a tech-related question in the office that needs an immediate answer, they ask me and I take a break from my real job to find the answer. My 70-something year old grandmother does genealogy, online games, and is working on an online Masters in History right now. Grandpa is rather less into it though and while he has an email account and has probably played solitaire, computers are really not his thing.
As an earlier poster mentioned, I wonder how I would spend my time without spending so much on it on computer. |
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The only one I know who I know for certain has never used a computer, let alone the internet, is my grandfather, who is 93. (My other grandfather has a computer. I'm not entirely sure about internet, though, there.) |
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I would like to tell you a little story if I may.
When I was remarried eight years ago, we bought a townhouse in a golfing estate. I hate golf, but my hubby would meet his friends and they would have a terrific time. I used to do Latin-American dancing, but my hubby hates dancing. So, I thought that I was not going to vegetate: did yoga, meditation, solo cards, and make-up course, and then decided to buy myself a computer. To accompany this splurge, I bought 'Computers for Dummies'. This Dummy couldn't make head-nor-tail out of it. So I invested in a book called Visual Computer Lessons. Now I at least could switch on the darned thing without the trepidation that an almighty blast was going to fill the room. Eventually managed to get online, and I am still learning. I wasn't going to ask my new hubby to teach me (Here be Dragons) as I was not yet at the stage where I could let him know what a Dummy he had married. No one that I know in my age group uses computers. I think that's a shame. I have family dispersed all around the world, and I can speak to them on Skype, or send emails. There is a fear that people will think that you are a Dummy if you are not a quick learner. Reassure them. Just my two cents worth. I am seventy-four. Cheers |
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I used computers for many years before most people did, but I was late with the internet: I didn't get online until 1996.
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My father has never used the Web, or email either. I bought him a cell phone, but he doesn't use that. Never had a credit card either. He'll use a photocopier though.
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I have trouble with the universal remote.
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I do have several elderly neighbors who have never used a computer. They are in their 80s and 90s. |
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My mother has seen the internet at a friend's house but has never used it. The trouble I had getting her to use an answering machine was enough for me. I'm not about to show her how to point and click. She still writes me letters on paper, and snail mails them to me! It's rather nice to get letters, I'll miss them when she's gone.
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