h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Oh, now THERE is a scarey thought ... my mother on the internet !!!

oh? mine is not in hootoo though (yet).

mine is and now she has a new PC and is about to launch Broadband... I'm going to have to set up an alter-ego!!!

*waves to Deny-Lou* (U6043607)

*sends an added wave to Deny-Lou, and a cheerful welcome*

My mother has finally accepted that the internet exists, and is an interesting thing. The incidental finding that the senior of my tribe to have arrived in Canada from Prussia was also named Nicholas ... (something not previously known) ...

My parents see it as a library or tool to be used by others.

My parents would've loved h2g2...

With his nature and personality ... If the internet would have been around about 30 or 40 years sooner, I can be certain that my Dad would have been here. He always tries new gadgets and gimmicks. Now, at 73, he's just too tired to try something so new.

interesting isn't it? some 10 to 15 years ago I couldn't have imagined anything like hootoo.. now it's .. well .. taking up quite some time

15 years ago, text bulletin board systems were considered pretty high-tech stuff. As were Commodore C=64 computers.

.... and now every day life.. makes you wonder what will be around in 15 years from now

I won't even try to guess ... I have been involved with computers since '72, on the internet since about '93, and generally in technologies for 30 years now.

A simple thing: My baby was visiting us once, perhaps 10 years old. She came running to my work-shop, thinking something was wrong with the TV. The colour was all gone !!! It was an older movie, of the B & W vintage. She had never heard of such a thing.

Hey, wait a minute--she's not *that* much younger than me, I thought... Then again, my mom loved to watch B movies for the sheer cheesiness, so I wa exposed to B&W fairly young...

I remember the first colour TV I saw ... A 4th-grade classmate was the first in our village to have one, and he invited me to his home for lunch from the school day. Imagine !!! Huckleberry Hound in his true blue colours !!! And Yogi Bear, Quickdraw McGraw, Woody Woodpecker ... all of them even more colourful than in the comics.

Ummmm, we were kinda late returning to class.