Word: oldest
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...COMPUTERS!!! ALMOST. She signed up for a computer class at a local senior center. Before long, Trabish had sent e-mail to her family: "I think I am going to the head of the class...So far, I am one lesson ahead of the crowd. Not bad for the oldest member of our mishpocha...
...keeping the network updated on her latest project: a family history starting with the move from Poland to Brooklyn. Everyone will get an e-mail copy, except for Trabish's two brothers and two sisters, who are still holding out on the revolution. "I am the oldest person in the family," she says impatiently, "and I use the computer. My nieces and nephews keep getting mad with their parents--'Why can't you do it if Aunt Sara does it?' I said, 'I'm enjoying it. I feel you would enjoy it too.' But they think I'm crazy. They...
When she reached California, her son Paul persuaded her to log onto the WELL, a Sausalito-based online community that predates AOL's chat rooms. Most of the users were men in their 30s and 40s. Says Kamen: "I was female, and I was by far the oldest. The value was being able to log on without being identified by age or anything else. It was really liberating...
When she revealed her age, it was well received. "I enjoyed the fact that I was the oldest woman on the WELL," Kamen says. "I found myself serving as a role model when someone came on saying they had just had their 40th birthday and were feeling over the hill. I could respond to that...
...Oldest candidates for delisting or downlisting: bald eagle, gray wolf, Aleutian Canada goose, Columbian white-tailed deer, Hawaiian hawk and Pahrump poolfish, all listed since March...