<p>Thanks as always for the input. I checked the AARP website and there is a senior discount for Earthlink. There is also something called People PC - anyone heard of that?</p>
<p>I would not recommend Juno- it is cheap, but has been really unreliable for my in-laws, who don’t yet have a DSL option. It disconnects them all the time, it’s really frustrating.</p>
<p>If they have access to high speed and can afford it, there are huge variances in price depending on your area, I would recommend it for making the entire internet experience more user-friendly for them as newbies.</p>
<p>My grandma will be 94 this January and she has been using AOL for the last 5 years or so. It’s funny because she’s so tech-savvy for somebody her age. She’ll instant message me sometimes (however, she usually sends huge paragraphs so it is more like minute message), emails me, buys stuff off the web, etc.</p>
<p>Postmaster - how cool about your grandma! Way to go!
I’ll have to tell my in-laws that a 94 year old can use the internet so they should have no problems with it!</p>
<p>some people are just more comfortable with new ideas
My husband has to use computers at work- has had to for years- he hates them- in an effort to facilitate this new technology- I bought a personal computer to him to try out at home- so that he would be more comfortable- that was 1988. I have had probably 6 or 7 computers since then- he doesn’t use them for anything & can’t even check his work email.
He works with tools and materials that you can use force if subtlety doesn’t work- if the computer wasn’t doing what he wanted it to- fast enough- he would start pounding keys :eek:
doesn’t work that way!</p>
<p>Very funny story about the Mr. I think some of the folks who cannot use computers and the logic of them is so funny. I can see the problem with using tools that manipulate and then bashing the keyboard </p>
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<p>I would shoot myself before I got AOL, mostly because of #4 on the following list. Although some of you are happy with it, it has its problems.</p>
<ol>
<li>It’s SLOW.</li>
<li>The software is annoying and tries to take over your machine.</li>
<li>The web browser doesn’t always behave right.</li>
<li>When you try to get rid of it, they will still charge you until you scream at the guy at the other end of the phone, and this usually happens two months after you initially call to cancel. Then they send you CDs in the mail for years and they aren’t even that great of frisbees. The guy who questions you (more than one in almost all cases) is always a pain to deal with. I’d take one of those Dell techs who can’t speak fluently any day (and those techs are why I don’t recommend Dells to anyone)</li>
<li>$21 per month isn’t good for what you get.</li>
<li>Mac support is weak</li>
<li>The IM built into it breaks some rules when used with geniune AIM</li>
<li>Some people don’t like or support AOL email addresses</li>
</ol>
<p>I use Verizon DSL and am very happy with it. Check your local phone company if you still want to go the dial up route, but with increasingly large and complicated image files popping up everywhere it’s tough to handle 56K anymore.</p>