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. :) Julie --
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