My homepage is a file that I created. It contains about a hundred links. It is on my computer’s hard drive and also OneDrive (Cloud). It is a pain to maintain, but the advantage is that I can switch browsers or switch to my laptop and get the exact same links. I’m elderly.
Everybody has that issue. It’s just that, mostly, we don’t notice that we’ve forgotten how to … oh, use a card catalog, or look up a phone number in the white pages. Or double-clutch when down-shifting…
My close friend, another elderly guy, once asked me why his pc was sluggish. Having spent a few decades stumbling through my own problems and solutions, I found that he had never deleted emails. He thought when he closed them they were gone. The once major email service provider still had his emails going back to 1999, over 3900.
When I hit delete, the site digitally coughed and wheezed and took almost two days to clear. That was a couple years ago, and he has had no email problems since, except for the many scammers who jumped on his email address, and who harassed him until he learned how to change it.
So, while us elders sometimes resist learning things that might help, we also find ways to make progress toward what we need or want to know. Just as with youngsters, we learn at our own speed.
An old Steven Wright joke. He said that someone once told him that in order to learn something new, you had to forget something old. He liked the idea, but could not help but wonder what he forgot in order to learn this new thing.
My father’s version of this. “I have lived a long time and learned so much that my brain is completely full. If you want me to remember that, I am going to have to forget something else”
When my job was working on PC problems, and I would be trying to recover someone’s data from a failing or corrupted hard drive, always one of the most important things they did not want to lose was their Bookmarks…
I’m just now having to learn to use a cell phone. So far, not too big of a fan of it-TMI, and don’t hardly know what’s junk and legit. Thankful for being able to turn off so much through the settings cog.
It was the other way around in my house as my child was growing up. Even in college, and sometimes currently, I would get calls for help with computers. And directions while driving, but the apps have eliminated those calls.
Mom, I’ll create the bookmark. Then, you have to remember how to use it. That way, you don’t have to remember what to type in every time. That will leave slightly more room in your memory.
Sherlock Holmes was concerned that human memory had limited capacity. He didn’t care to know whether the Sun went around the Earth or the Earth went around the Sun. It wasn’t relevant to what he did. He would rather save room for something that might be useful to a consulting detective.
I used to do that for the first couple of years when I first started surfing the net. All my notepads would be filled with URLs that I never visited. Now I just bookmark news and read it four years later.
I’m sure I’ve forgotten many things, I just don’t remember what they are.btw: I have a hypothesis that one of the reasons we dream is to dump irrelevant memories and since memories aren’t store sequentially we have some pretty surreal dreams sometimes.
This is simply a lazy belief. The human mind is always capable of learning new things. If you don’t practice old things, you will forget them. That’s the way it’s supposed to work.
I think of the brain as a hard drive with only so much memory. At some point, in order to add something, something else has to be deleted, and you don’t always get a choice as to what.
pearlsbs about 3 years ago
I don’t bookmark the websites I often go to. I only type the first few letters in and it fills in the rest.
monkeysky about 3 years ago
If you can’t learn how to set up a computer, you should at least learn how to ask someone who can.
sirbadger about 3 years ago
My homepage is a file that I created. It contains about a hundred links. It is on my computer’s hard drive and also OneDrive (Cloud). It is a pain to maintain, but the advantage is that I can switch browsers or switch to my laptop and get the exact same links. I’m elderly.
Templo S.U.D. about 3 years ago
okay…
Concretionist about 3 years ago
Everybody has that issue. It’s just that, mostly, we don’t notice that we’ve forgotten how to … oh, use a card catalog, or look up a phone number in the white pages. Or double-clutch when down-shifting…
jdi801 about 3 years ago
That’s right out of an episode of The IT Crowd.
Display about 3 years ago
“Mom, at least let me close some of the 4,296 tabs you have open.”
Jeff0811 about 3 years ago
Add the bookmark without grandma knowing, then show her how easy it is.
The Old Wolf about 3 years ago
I hope I never get to this point.
JanBic Premium Member about 3 years ago
Sherlock Holmes (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle) in “A Study in Scarlet”
iggyman about 3 years ago
Peck, peck, peck, where is the hunt, Opal? Ha ha!
Breadboard about 3 years ago
The last panel reminds me of an episode of “Married With Children” ! Every time Kelly learns something new something old goes out ;-)
jagedlo about 3 years ago
…like nag after Earl!
sandpiper about 3 years ago
My close friend, another elderly guy, once asked me why his pc was sluggish. Having spent a few decades stumbling through my own problems and solutions, I found that he had never deleted emails. He thought when he closed them they were gone. The once major email service provider still had his emails going back to 1999, over 3900.
When I hit delete, the site digitally coughed and wheezed and took almost two days to clear. That was a couple years ago, and he has had no email problems since, except for the many scammers who jumped on his email address, and who harassed him until he learned how to change it.
So, while us elders sometimes resist learning things that might help, we also find ways to make progress toward what we need or want to know. Just as with youngsters, we learn at our own speed.
Zebrastripes about 3 years ago
Ha! Best to leave her to her own devices….
Lee26 Premium Member about 3 years ago
I LOVE my toolbar. It has my most frequented websites.
ANIMAL about 3 years ago
Oh my GOD – This is TOTALLY my mom..!!!!!
DiminishedFirst about 3 years ago
An old Steven Wright joke. He said that someone once told him that in order to learn something new, you had to forget something old. He liked the idea, but could not help but wonder what he forgot in order to learn this new thing.
indysteve9 about 3 years ago
I know someone exactly like Opal.
oldlady07 Premium Member about 3 years ago
My father’s version of this. “I have lived a long time and learned so much that my brain is completely full. If you want me to remember that, I am going to have to forget something else”
ChessPirate about 3 years ago
When my job was working on PC problems, and I would be trying to recover someone’s data from a failing or corrupted hard drive, always one of the most important things they did not want to lose was their Bookmarks…
I'll fly away about 3 years ago
I’m just now having to learn to use a cell phone. So far, not too big of a fan of it-TMI, and don’t hardly know what’s junk and legit. Thankful for being able to turn off so much through the settings cog.
MuddyUSA Premium Member about 3 years ago
Pear is of the old school….very old school.
Moonkey Premium Member about 3 years ago
It was the other way around in my house as my child was growing up. Even in college, and sometimes currently, I would get calls for help with computers. And directions while driving, but the apps have eliminated those calls.
Jogger2 about 3 years ago
Mom, I’ll create the bookmark. Then, you have to remember how to use it. That way, you don’t have to remember what to type in every time. That will leave slightly more room in your memory.
Jogger2 about 3 years ago
Sherlock Holmes was concerned that human memory had limited capacity. He didn’t care to know whether the Sun went around the Earth or the Earth went around the Sun. It wasn’t relevant to what he did. He would rather save room for something that might be useful to a consulting detective.
Mayor Snorkum about 3 years ago
This is absolutely true, and it’d be funny as hell if it weren’t happening to me.
Mentor397 about 3 years ago
I used to do that for the first couple of years when I first started surfing the net. All my notepads would be filled with URLs that I never visited. Now I just bookmark news and read it four years later.
KEA about 3 years ago
I’m sure I’ve forgotten many things, I just don’t remember what they are.btw: I have a hypothesis that one of the reasons we dream is to dump irrelevant memories and since memories aren’t store sequentially we have some pretty surreal dreams sometimes.
mistercatworks about 3 years ago
This is simply a lazy belief. The human mind is always capable of learning new things. If you don’t practice old things, you will forget them. That’s the way it’s supposed to work.
zeexenon about 3 years ago
All you do is hit CTRL + ALT + PAGE UP + ESC + F10 in that order within two milliseconds
momkastner about 3 years ago
I’ve been telling everyone that my Hubby’s hard drive is full – he can’t learn anything new without getting an error message ;)
kaycstamper about 3 years ago
“But I don’t listen to her cuz my head is like a sieve, duh-duh-duh-duh…” Cheech & Chong “Up in Smoke”
Buckeye67 about 3 years ago
Her brain has reached it’s saturation point and she is not interested in wringing it out.
ChukLitl Premium Member about 3 years ago
Same reason she’s got the browser on “private.” She doesn’t want everyone to know she’s always on chipendancers.xxx.
j.l.farmer about 3 years ago
she can add it to the bookmarks and tell her mom to check the bookmarks the next time she wants to access that website.
Laurie Stoker Premium Member about 3 years ago
I know! Right?
pbr50138 about 3 years ago
That’s a very old joke.
nisedc about 3 years ago
I think of the brain as a hard drive with only so much memory. At some point, in order to add something, something else has to be deleted, and you don’t always get a choice as to what.