Browsing through this thread, I'm amazed at the depth of knowledge that so many of my co-forumers have amassed on computers in general!As a comparative newcomer to the "world" of Information Technology, I have to confess to being largely self-taught.
For ME, it all began in 2005, when my daughter and her husband decided to replace their PC, and offered me their "old" model [circa 1999] ... on the premise that I showed at least SOME interest [previously lacking] in learning at least the "basics". Well, I DID manage to get THAT far ... but still know damn-all about the technical aspects (or "fiddlier bits" as I refer to them!) and, even though the vintage model donated, has long since been superseded by an updated Microsoft Windows 'Vista' version, I still tend to treat my [new] computer as a glorified typewriter.
Someone here, recently referred to me as the "Grandfather of the Forum"... and I suppose I AM in a sense ... being (I think) about the second-oldest of our regular members by less than five years. So, IS it an "age thing", I wonder? DOES the fact that I belong to a generation that can remember computers in their infancy - as being large and bulky machines taking up the entire ground floor space in the offices of a Multi-National Insurance Corporation's Headquarters, for example - enter into it? And nowadays, of course, children seem better-equipped to master the intricacies of technology than they are at learning the '3rs' or reciting the alphabet. But is this necessarily a good thing?
