It wasn't long after I got my mom set up with a brand-new computer and AT&T Webmail account, that I started sending her email.
No response.
So I sent her another batch of email.
No response.
A week later - ah, but you've already figured it out, haven't you? - I started receiving IBM-Selectric-typed notes via U.S. Mail from my mother. Each note responded to an email I'd sent her.
It took me two months to convince and show her (repeatedly) how to send email back to me.
My father wasn't terribly tech-savvy while he was alive, either. I have no idea where my technical abilities came from.
In fact, several people who have met my parents suggested my abilities came from either the milkman or postman. Or maybe they were just commenting on my legal status in general. I'm sure that was it.
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It wasn't long after I got my mom set up with a brand-new computer and AT&T Webmail account, that I started sending her email.
No response.
So I sent her another batch of email.
No response.
A week later - ah, but you've already figured it out, haven't you? - I started receiving IBM-Selectric-typed notes via U.S. Mail from my mother. Each note responded to an email I'd sent her.
It took me two months to convince and show her (repeatedly) how to send email back to me.
My father wasn't terribly tech-savvy while he was alive, either. I have no idea where my technical abilities came from.
In fact, several people who have met my parents suggested my abilities came from either the milkman or postman. Or maybe they were just commenting on my legal status in general. I'm sure that was it.