Re: [Thinkpad] Computers for Daddy-O

And what's in it for you?

thinkpad-request@stderr.org wrote:
> Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 10:48:23 -0500
> From: Lee Reynolds <lr@fluent.com>
> Subject: [Thinkpad] Computers for Daddy-O
> To: thinkpad@stderr.org
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> If you have friends, relatives, pets, whatever - that either hate computers
> or are sure that they "just can't learn computers" - there's a trick I've
> learnt that lures 'em in nicely.
>
> You get them a MSN/Web TV box.
>
> It's a gateway drug to the world of real computers. It's far less
> intimidating to 'em and it serves to bring them up to speed on the whole
> concept of mouselike actions (in this case, placing the box over the right
> spot), email, browsing and all that good stuff. The comparative simplicity
> of the device and its interface get them over the fear of the complexity of
> a computer.
>
> Once they're comfortable with all that, they spend a good long while
> playing around with it, emailing their old buddies, all that happy play.
> Then, after a while, they start wondering why they can't open this or that
> attachment, see this web site properly, do fancy word processing - all of
> a sudden the person who was terrified of computers has both a desire and a
> legitimate need for a computer. Not to mention some idea of what they're doing!
>
> (Usually takes a year to eighteen months to get 'em addicted.)
>
> Done it three times so far, each time the unwary victim has graduated to
> using a computer after being certain that they could never learn to use
> such a thing.
>
>
> Lee
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Received on Thu Mar 18 13:27:13 2004