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Late Adopters – Better Get Ready
by Andrew McCaskey
The item on late adopters caught my eye – and that’ unusual because I am almost always on the early adopter end of the spectrum.
The real shocker was that the subject being interviewed was actually younger than I am by a few years.
He was talking about being perfectly happy with dial-up access, AOL and an absurdly old Dell. The issue was the discontinuance of the Netscape browser option at AOL, and a forced migration to Firefox.
I have to admit that up until about a year ago I worked daily on a machine that I also had a Netscape install working – just for the quick web editing – I believe called Composer.
Add in point number two that just today I was really missing my Palm III’s functionality as I was trying to do something on the iPhone – grab a note – and realized how transparent the Palm III had been with an NT laptop from about eight or ten years ago . Of course, I’d have a rough time reading the monochrome screen – but it’s no too far from the functionality that I need today.
Then, there’s Twitter – which I refuse to run, because I can’t stand the constant interruption and flow of trivia.
He probably just got there a few years before I will.
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