11% of Americans don’t use the internet

Re:11% of Americans don’t use the internet by Phantasmagoria on Monday July 23, 2018 @06:17PM (#17596479)

For some older people the logic of the operating system is nearly incommunicable. They get keyboards, as they've typed. They can get a grip on a mouse. But after that they've got the face of a dog that's just been shown a new trick.

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Re:11% of Americans don’t use the internet by mr_toad on Monday July 23, 2018 @09:16PM (#17597407)

Not just older people. For a lot of people the GUI is the computer, and anything inside may as well be magic. I’ve known more than one who has referred to the whole computer enclosure as the hard drive.

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Re:11% of Americans don’t use the internet by skocznymroczny on Tuesday July 24, 2018 @09:26AM (#17600761)

Obviously, because the screen is the computer, so the big box has to be the hard drive :)

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