{"id":343,"date":"2005-11-29T07:31:16","date_gmt":"2005-11-29T12:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/randomgenealogy.com\/?p=343"},"modified":"2005-11-29T09:31:36","modified_gmt":"2005-11-29T14:31:36","slug":"86-year-old-computer-using-genealogist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/randomgenealogy.com\/2005\/11\/29\/86-year-old-computer-using-genealogist\/","title":{"rendered":"86-Year Old Computer-Using Genealogist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The News Journal (DelawareOnline.com), has a pretty interesting article, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delawareonline.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20051129\/LIFE\/511260349\/-1\/NEWS01\">The Grandparent<\/a>, about an 86-year-old Grandma who likes to use computers (which is an understatement):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Nora Taylor is pretty computer-literate for a grandma. She&#8217;s on her fifth or sixth computer, and few 86-year-olds keep back copies of Wired magazine in their living rooms.<\/p>\n<p>Though she likes to read about the cutting edge, Taylor doesn&#8217;t spend money for the latest gadget. Her 7-year-old Compaq computer runs Windows 98, and she uses a $10-a-month dial-up connection service called BlueLight to connect to the Web.<\/p>\n<p>She uses the Web to stay in touch with family members in Florida and Arizona, to run genealogy software programs&#8230;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m hoping to be doing the same when I&#8217;m 86, and I expect I will be, as will many of you &#8211; now that home computers have been around for 20 years or so, I expect more and more older folks will be using them, and not just for genealogy or emailing the grandkids.  I&#8217;m sure somebody that tracks trends on the internet will start seeing more and more 65-year-olds and on up using the internet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The News Journal (DelawareOnline.com), has a pretty interesting article, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delawareonline.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20051129\/LIFE\/511260349\/-1\/NEWS01\">The Grandparent<\/a>, about an 86-year-old Grandma who likes to use computers (which is an understatement):<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomgenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomgenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomgenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomgenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomgenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/randomgenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomgenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomgenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomgenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}