Blinky the Shark <> wrote in
news: :
> Changstein wrote:
....
> And/or he doesn't know that "the web" isn't the Internet. Heck, a
> whole generation of AOLers didn't/don't know that AOL isn't the
> Internet, and now we're facing a new gang of numbnutses that think
> these are Google Groups.
A certain good ol' boy who runs a joke site (but whom I refuse to
identify further because he allows anti-semitic jokes to be published
there) *did* define AOL as a large virus, whose principal effect is to
lower the IQ of the owners of the systems which it infests... A little
harsh perhaps, but certainly it shows that his heart was in the right
place on at least one subject.
Seriously, I have known intelligent non-IT professionals who used AOL
because they apparently didn't want to be bothered with just how a
computer works -- and an even greater number of technophobes who used it
because they just *couldn't* understand, and appreciated the lack of
options and the words-of-one-syllable approach.
Myself, I just know enough about Google Groups to avoid them, and if I
thereby loose out on something, so be it. "Oldthinkers unbellyfeel
Ingoc."
Changstein