Word: capellini
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Capellini didn't stop there. He read a newspaper column describing www.switchboard.com an Internet database of telephone white pages across the country that could be used to find old friends. He decided to look for a cousin, William Lucini, in Philadelphia, whom he had not seen in 60 years. Capellini found two people with the right name; the second was his cousin. "My fingers were trembling as I punched in the numbers," he says. "I didn't know if he would talk to me." When he said, "This is your cousin Bob Capellini. Do you remember me?" Lucini answered, "Yeah...
...Capellini, 70, never figured he would join his fellow seniors online. "Cap," as he calls himself, is not a trendy guy. A product of the Depression, he shops at Sears and clips coupons despite having earned a comfortable retirement for himself and his wife in Temple Terrace, Fla., a Tampa suburb. He has a desktop computer but never thought of going online until his son Steve suggested it so they could e-mail each other. "What do I need that for?" Capellini asked his son. "I was very apprehensive at first. You know, the older you get, the more conservative...
They are planning a reunion. And Capellini has gone on to look up high school chums as well. "Out of everything I've done with the computer, lining up old friends and relatives has been the most rewarding. I guess I could have somehow done it another way, but this just put the tools at my fingertips...