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Is it just me?? Or am I OLD??

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Originally posted by whittibo whittibo wrote:

This might seem like a stupid question.. (but you might be getting used to those out of me by now too..)

BUT.. I have noticed a FEW of the members here must be KIDS!  Now I am not OLD by my standards, only 35, but Scotty (totally funny guy btw)  he mentioned he didn't have a checking account cause he was only a KID.    (unless he was joking?!)

I'm 38 and started using computers when I was 14.  Started with BASIC and worked my way up.  Now mostly do stats using SPSS but am learning ASP thanks to this site and Drew's.

I usually work as a health educator and a few years back registered my own domain and recently popped up these forums there.  I currently live on a little tiny island and do computer training (mostly education) for young and old alike.

Young being 5+ and old being 75+.  It's fun, I enjoy it and my rates are really, really flexible given the population I work with and I see many, many young people (range 3 month to 15 years, n = 46).

All of them use computers well depending on their ages.

The oldies too.

It's those my age I see struggling.

Egad.

Rantz



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Infants! all of ya!

53 here. Been in computing since I was 19. Worked for a telco setting up the internet before it was the internet - Arpanet back then. Been a hoot to see how it's dominated the world in 20 years. First Personal computer was a PET/4 - the 4 stands for 4kb of ram.

BTW, The highest demographic of internet users is under 20. A close second, is people over 55. You can't walk into a senior center in the US and not see people on the net. They also tend to have disposable incomes to buy computers with.

I've seen Drew's - a.k.a. Madddog's - picture. If he's 16, it's been a hard 16 years



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