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echo: nthelp
to: Thees Peereboom
from: Geo.
date: 2004-10-02 22:09:06
subject: Re: XP Pro, XP Home, Now XP Dumb?

From: "Geo." 

"Thees Peereboom"  wrote in message
news:opse86vwzg2hvhrx{at}news.barkto.com...

> The other day I was talking to some youngsters in the bizz and told them I
> got my first emailaddress in 1987 (the CIS one - got it from PCMagnet) and
> that I still got it. They looked at me if I were old (turned 47 today) and
> asked in all seriousness 'Is email *that* old'?

I'm 46 and my kids once asked me when I first used a computer, I told them
I was in a computer learning group when I was 12 and they didn't know what
to say till one of them muttered "how do you get 1's and 0's banging
rocks together?"..

So I grabbed their heads and said "let me demonstrate". 

Geo. (btw, happy birthday old man)

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