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...kingdom of cyberspace, youth still rules, of course. But there is an invasion under way, led by the likes of Sara Trabish. This unlikely foot soldier is an 82-year-old great-grandmother who keeps her family connected with e-mail. A grandson in Maryland sends her dirty jokes. Her great-grandniece and great-grandnephew, both 13, love being on her online network and have gotten to know her better. "I feel good about building ties with a younger generation," Trabish says...
Experts differ on numbers, but most agree that people 50 and older make up the fastest-growing group online. Some, like Trabish, want to strengthen relationships with people far away. Others want to manage their investments, plan trips or get medical information. Many take classes at local senior centers or community colleges to learn the basics, then start with an easy-to-use service such as America Online. These services offer e-mail and chat rooms, where several people are online simultaneously and carry on a written conversation. Other seniors like the chat rooms offered by online sites geared...
...Trabish, who took the plunge three years ago, pushed by her frustration with the conversation over dinner at her son's house. "I didn't know what they were talking about--icons, bytes, software, hardware, mail they got on the computer," she says. "So I asked my son, 'Do you think I could learn all this?' He said, 'Mother, you could do it.' And I said, 'O.K., go buy me a set.'" Four weeks and $2,500 later, she had her "set": an olive-green Acer computer that sits right next to her bed in her Chevy Chase, Md., home...
That's Yiddish for family. Trabish has used her online skills to keep her mishpocha network connected. It includes her three children, four grandchildren, seven great-grandchildren, lots of nieces and nephews and some close friends. And she is 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...
...blushing birddog of blackboard errors. Author Rosten has added some newcomers. There is Mr. Matsoukas. a muttering Greek for whom derivation is the mother of invention (" 'Automobile' is Grik! 'Airplane' is Grik! 'Telephone' is Grik! All, all, all Grik!"). There is Mr. Trabish, whose hero is Paul Revere ("One by Land, Two by the Beach"). Peter Studniczka, an equally avid patriot, lists as traitors "Ben & Dick Arnold...
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