You should listen to Doug trying to convince his 17-year-old sister than a cable modem is faster than AOL dial-up. I thought teenagers were supposed to be more computer savvy than adults. This is the same teen who reformatted her hard drive and then was surprised that she lost her illegal MP3 files.
i also find it amazing the number of kids i come across who have “slipped through the cracks” and know nothing about computers. either how to use them or about their internals
my age is pretty much the oldest age of people who have intimate knowledge as i was the youngest year at my highschool to get access to computers a for the whole high school time. i find that people older than me who know pcs well have deliberately taken the time to teach themselves – im 36.
however there is no excuse for young people nowadays who need to use pcs in the businesses and jobs but don’t know how…mind boggling