On Tuesday 01 March 2005 11:14 am, Julie Sloan wrote: > On Tuesday 01 March 2005 12:16 pm, Kirschner, Mark wrote: > > Julie Sloan claimed: > > > > But I never broke windows so badly I had to reinstall it! > > > > Julie > > -- > > > > Um, you need to boot the computer for it to break �;-) > > Maybe I never broke it or got so virus'd up I couldn't fix it myself > because I didn't use IE or OE. > > Maybe I was just lucky, or maybe I was lucky in another way, running into > people on USENET who told me "get a real ISP" "get a real browser" and > "join cauce." > > So within three or four months of getting a computer (with <cringe> advice > from Dad, who STILL swears the sun rises and sets on AOHell), I'd moved > from AOL to mindspring, from IE to Netsape, was using Eudora-light for a > mail reader and FreeAgent for newsgroups, and was reading snopes.com and > symantec before forwarding all those warnings. <g> And preaching to > anyone who'd listen that AOL is the kindergarden of the internet - fine, > start there, but move on as soon as you are able or you'll never learn > anything. Now I'm applying all I've learned into getting a real OS, and > it's really frustrating to be back in preschool. > > Maybe this musing is getting a bit too OT for this list. :) not at all we have all gone through similar times (except for the Ubergeeks that hang out on the cooker list) > > Julie
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