A brand new Internet’er
Jun 4th, 2007 by Frank Fox
At age 78, my mother - for the first time - has just plugged herself into the information revolution. Right now she is probably shouting YAHOO! and Googling everything she’s ever wanted to find out… about… well… everything! I know this because her phone has been busy for a while and some of my friends and relatives are emailing me asking, “Did your mom get a computer? Holy cow! I think I just got an email from her!”
Well, it’s not a computer. It’s Web TV. Lori and I got it for her on Mother’s Day. And being a Microsoft product, of course, the first unit she received didn’t work and needed to be sent back for replacement.
Since she lives so far away from us, we figured her learning curve for a laptop running some overblown OS would be more stress than it was worth - on all of us. And we were right. She had that replacement unit out of the box and set up before the Arizona dust trailing the UPS delivery truck had settled.
And right about now she is sitting on her sofa, flying at 56 kilobits per second; the wind in her hair; a smile on her face and that WOW look in her eyes.
Now we just have to keep her from picking up any hitchhikers on her journey down the info superhighway.