the People's Republic of Christine
today my 64 year old father asked me to show him how to use the "internets"
in the past i've always said i'll do it for you, what do you want me to look up?
like a good little communist dictator, retain control by limiting access to knowledge and technology
but today i changed my mind, mainly because i was sitting on the couch with my laptop reading an article on the Bernard Madoff scandal and he was looking over my shoulder and i felt bad.
so we go over to the living room pc and i explain that www stands for world wide web and i show him how to click on links, and how to use the mouse to scroll down, and how to use the "back" button
and we do his first google search and i wait while he types s l o o o w w w l y into the search bar:
father wedding speechhe's in the living room writing things down on a yellow notepad. i'm in the kitchen pretending to watch tv, i can hear him practicing out loud
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