How 'switched on' are your parents?

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  • RawAlex
    So Fucking Banned
    • Oct 2003
    • 9465

    #16
    My father and step mom still have a dial phone. They pay extra to avoid touch tone.

    'nuff said.

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    • stillsexy
      Confirmed User
      • Dec 2006
      • 1913

      #17
      few years back when i was in oversea, my mum made a long distance call to me. She sounded very excited on the phone and told me that someone sent her email saying she won 30 million worth of lottery. I said it's a scam! She didn't really believe me and told me dad she won that lottery....bla bla....completely ignore me....

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      • tASSy
        Spread The Pink!
        • Nov 2004
        • 8229

        #18
        my mother hates the internet. she thinks it's evil. my father works on computers daily but they don't have a high speed connection at home or an extra line for DSL, they're on dial-up on an island with two almost no longer teenage boys - i think that's insane.

        tassy*PINK
        * ICQ ~ 318*097*066 *


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        • DaddyHalbucks
          A freakin' legend!
          • Feb 2004
          • 18975

          #19
          They can use email (I think).
          Boner Money

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          • Jimmy Rock
            Confirmed User
            • Feb 2005
            • 3055

            #20
            HAh I have to explaing Bandwidth in terms of electricity to my parents for them to understand what the heck I'm talking about
            Jimmy Rock | ICQ: 285 748 329
            [email protected]

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            • Evil1
              Confirmed User
              • Mar 2002
              • 3893

              #21
              My parents have a computer i gave them, it's hilarious.. my mother refers to icq as "that fucking message window thingie" and doesnt think theres any sites out there other then ebay.. my dad will get on it and hunt down shit, if he thinks hes found what he's looking for he'll print the site out, then just shut the power off on the computer and go read what he printed. They have a cell phone, they mastered powering it up, as for making a call.. no way. One of these days when im over there im going to txt message it and watch them try to figure out why it's making noises.

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              • ztik
                Confirmed User
                • Aug 2001
                • 5196

                #22
                My mom is the one who I learned to use computers from. She used to program with punch cards in college. I remember our computer crash and she reprogrammed it in dos.

                My dad knows enough for his work, but I don't think he cares to learn anymore. He still runs dos and windows 3.1 on his computer, lol
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                • sniperwolf
                  Too lazy to set a custom title
                  • Mar 2005
                  • 17743

                  #23
                  both of my parents don't know how to use computers...trying my best to teach them though...
                  ~Accepting design works~

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                  • rowan
                    Too lazy to set a custom title
                    • Mar 2002
                    • 17393

                    #24
                    I was impressed when I received a text message from my mother a few days after she got her first mobile (cell) phone.

                    My Mother In Law only knows how to answer the phone, or key in digits and make a call. If you try to show her how to use the phone book or change ring tones she gets scared and flustered.

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                    • Sarah_Jayne
                      Now with more Jayne
                      • Dec 2002
                      • 40077

                      #25
                      Originally posted by bopha

                      True Story 2: My 96 YO grandma saw on the news that there was a new computer virus and she went over to the computer where my brother was working and started hitting him on the head screaming for him to stop touching the computer or he'd get sick. Poor Grammy. She just doesn't understand.
                      that is priceless


                      My bf's parents refer to the entire of the internet as 'the Google'.

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