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

Abraham said:
It depends on when they started using them as to whether it's surprising or not, for anyone over about 30 who has never used a PC in their lives it's a big jump, getting bigger the older they are. It's not that they're not capable of doing things, just that it's a big new skillset to learn.

Obviously there's a big difference between these people and people who've used computers since they were invented and just happen to be old
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Actually that has summed it up better than I could.
There have always been geeks and with the first home computer which was the ZX80 many men bought one.
Virtually all the old men who were into Ham Radio also followed the computing side and to this day if you go along to Computer Fairs you will see lots of Grandads walking round who would take most of you young uns apart computing wise.
In the early 90s it was us old uns that were teaching all you young uns how to turn one on so just remember how you first learned how to use a PC.
It is very true that schools embraced them but not many homes did and they were too expensive for parents to buy one for their kids.
In the late 90s I made the biggest mistake of my life by not putting money into the original Overclockers because I couldn't see home PCs taking off that much.
I used my own factory of 2,500 people has a testing ground and very few had one so it was pointless putting money into it (of course it was Internet shopping that changed the fortunes of OCUK and at that time I also didn't think the Internet would take off like it did - bit useless aren't I?).
Of course parts got cheaper and kids were slowly expected to do computing at home.

My computing life actually progressed where kids were computer illiterate but that trend has now obviously swapped as the years rolled by.
My 76 year old Dad gave me his new cd album yesterday filled with 22 songs which he plays all instruments on and records using Sonar Production and Soundforge as well as the other bits of software such as Gearbox for his Line 6 products.
He then uses Coreldraw and Photoshop to make his own cd covers but of course he was a geek and bought a ZX80.
 
My cycle coach has multiple pc's, like 4 monitors, 2 in his living room, and some right gadgets, he also uses Facebook. He is 82.
 
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