Saturday, August 31, 2013

Far out your never too old

It doesn't matter what age you are. My 80 year old mother purchased her first new laptop 3 years ago she had been given old computers before that were too slow to really keep her interest. We as siblings have taught the best we could considering her age as anybody connected to the elderly would appreciate. We all as siblings have received emils from her to instantly reply. Which would take another week when she would put her newspapers crossword down (her mind is still sharp )and have a game of patience as she would call it to discover we replied to which would reply and not heard of online until another week passed. I've had exposure or more so had ISP work experience for let's say along time for me the term online was techicaly a method to which you constantly connected via access of a computer it was a new technology born in 1981 I started in 1995 working for Telecom Xtra when it had just begun rolling out 9.5kb dial up connections complete with an email account. Now regarding my mother who we told she could chat anytime all the time she wanted online she however was use to snail mail post when you sent a letter it took a week to gain reply. So this went on once a week except when shes been in hospital was the standard until tonight I say so because tonight I had left her place  earlier today and she said as i left phone me to say how my dentists visit I was on my way to. Anyway I say so because I have a new Samsung phone which is another  future post I will post anyway it chirpped its email delivery sound (it's still a Telecom Xtra account) and I've responded and received reply a dozen or so times with her tonight in one sitting I got a feeling theres a reply waiting for me when I finish this post. She getting more savy with the internet all the time it's a matter of time now before she will be using www.dictionary.com instead of those hard back copies she's been using for years to do her crosswords. It just shows your never too old to take technology on we as the younger generation just need to be patient or as she called it patience which is actually the standard win OS game software called solitaire. I'm going to check for a reply now my mum is awesome she turns 81 in November.

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