My First Computer
It’s easy to forget you’re a nerd when … well, you’re a nerd. Which makes reading stuff like this account of a first time computer user’s experience with an iPad so refreshing. When asked what she liked best about her iPad she responded:
That I have an e-mail address – you know. ‘Cause that’s the first thing [people] ask you: ‘What’s your e-mail address?’ So now, that makes me feel that I’m part of something-and then I feel that I can see and do more things now than I did before, because I didn’t have it a computer.
[Via James Gross]
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We got my mom an iPad for Christmas, and it was her very first computer of any kind. It is sort of amazing to see her use it now (she uses it every single day), and predominantly she uses it for email. Though, I’m still trying to convince her to use the keyboard dock I got for her instead of hunting and pecking on the touchscreen – she writes many, long, emails (almost entirely composed of questions). It really has been an introduction to a different level of society to her, one that seemed far too complicated to join due to the experience of my father’s PC.