Well.. here goes. I swore when I saw my first IBM PC (circa 1983) that I would not let it intimidate me - and promptly got out the pliers and took off the cover so I could see inside. Moving away from punch cards to floppy disks was also pretty anxiety provoking, since I couldn't see what was on the disk, whereas I had been able to "read" a punch card and create a new one, even if the old was torn into several pieces. "Progress" never seemed to stop - a 5 MB hard drive could hold just about everything, it seems. Next were the intricacies of Expanded versus Extended RAM - modems and Compuserve. Just when I thought I could stop learning new things and, perhaps, start using them, along came Novell (version 2.15) and Arcnet protocol. What's this? A whole new domain of "stuff" to learn. Did someone say Operating Systems - it didn't even register until Windows came out. Oh no, not more details to learn! Then the World Wide Web - FTP, Email, UUNET, WAIS, GOPHER, and HTML. Now we have our own websites for business and family.
In summary, borrowing the immortal words of Monte Python, "and now, for something completely different..."
I hope we (family and interested others) can use this new tool for sharing, and dare I say it.. making the world a better place to live.
HR