My Grandad uses MSN, and he is 80 soon...

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This is a bit of a random thread... Does anyone else have old members of their family who still use modern technology? - He has a Steam account and plays games on there, and he sometimes makes me smile the fact that he is just about 80, goes on MSN and plays games seems so cool. :)

Rock on oldies!
 
my gran bought herself a playstation 3 for xmas last year and has had pretty much every console going.

been gaming for AAGGEESSS she has.


completed all silent hills, tomb raiders, resident evils, bioshocks.. and loads more


used to help her on boss fights but she doesnt need the help anymore :O
 
Mine does too

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I would be so proud.

I had to stop msn from opening on startup for my grandma as she got scared and had to ring me up to ask how to get rid of it lol
 
This angers me so much.
Go to any Computer Fair and it will be full of old guys who mostly come from the Radio Ham days but who continued into computers.
The cleverest computer guys I know are all older than me and I'm getting on.
My Dad who is 77 not only uses MSN for Remote Assistance but is also quite proficient in using Photoshop, Corel Draw, Soundforge and Sonar Production Studio.
The most thickest illiterate computer users I've come across have mainly been young people although over the last 10 years that has slowly altered.
If I go back to 1988 when I first got into 286 machines I was 30 and everybody who was into this stuff was way older than me.
<calm down>
 
last year when i had no internet at home, i used my local library for free access. nearly every other computer was being used by old codgers on facebook.
 
Got a 86 year old granny who is running a xpm barton chip on an NF7 and its overclocked :) (fair enough it was me that overclocked it for her)
 
Nop my grandad (77) just uses it now for email to talk to my mum and her sister about my grandma because of her alzheimer's. So i just got him to get teamviewer and set that all up :)
 
My grandad, 78, just bought a solar panel. We talk about stuff like watercooling, and I recently explained overclocking to him. Nowhere near as impressive as some in this thread though :o
 
10 or so years ago in her 70s my gran bought a computer (had never used or even paid interest in them before then) and went to night college and learnt how to use it. she started off with MS office then went onto photoshop type stuff and ended up being able to program websites at a level good enough to make some for local charities.
 
"andy" said:
10 or so years ago in her 70s my gran bought a computer (had never used or even paid interest in them before then) and went to night college and learnt how to use it. she started off with MS office then went onto photoshop type stuff and ended up being able to program websites at a level good enough to make some for local charities.
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wow. this im impressed by
 
My grandad is 87 and has always been into computers since back when they had valves and punch cards. He's been using ICQ and MSN for years, I think he had a 6 digit ICQ number or something certainly really low. These days he's on facebook - he skipped the whole Bebo and Myspace phases.
 
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