Dispatching the 106 Year Old Geek Squad

AP:

Robinson is now 106 - that's 35 years older than McCain - and she began using the Internet at 98.

Blogs have been buzzing recently over McCain's admission that when it comes to the Internet, "I'm an illiterate who has to rely on his wife for any assistance he can get."...

"About 3/4ths  of white, college-educated men age over 65 use the Internet," says Susannah Fox, director of the project. "John McCain is an outlier when you compare him to his peers,"

 

With our national security and economic growth so closely tied to computing, it's hard to imagine governing without having even the most basic grasp on the internet. 

 


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I miss my Apple IIe
By OHliz Jul 23rd 2008 at 9:16 am EDT
That photo takes me back! I spent $2,000 for that pre-internet bulky machine, but the ESC button could always get you out of trouble. AppleWorks WP, databases & spreadsheets -- what more could you need?!
  



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