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More Senior Surfers Going Online

The Toronto Star (Canada), 11/27/09

Abstract:

In the high-tech universe where strange new planets are being born all the time – Skype, Twitter, Facebook – Josephine Edwards might be considered an ancient mariner.

She was 87 when she surfed the Net for the first time. At 90, she's learning the intricacies of email and emoticons. And she has got lots of company – four 60- and 70-somethings who are also trying to grasp the bold new world of technology in the basement of an East York seniors' centre.

When something really clicks for Edwards, her fellow late adapters are the first to know. "Oh, for crab-apple sake. Isn't that amazing?" the Toronto resident exclaims as a video pops up on her screen.

For these eureka moments, even email isn't fast enough to get the message out.

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