My Mums a Net Nerd

When I went to Tas last month I took Mum down my old hard drive and set her up with the Internet. I did have ulterior motives though, it meant that I could still keep in the loop of things when I was away, but I did also think Mum would enjoy have a surf every now and then. I'd been trying to talk her into getting on the net for ages, but she has always been a little scared of all that fan-dangled technology. I mentioned to her once that I did all my banking on it and she nearly had a coronary. She must have been watching too much Today Tonight because she was so scared that my bank accounts were going to get wiped, because apparently that's what happens when you put any details on the WWW.

We normally talk everyday, but for the last few weeks all I get is the bloody engaged signal! Stupid dial up! When I do manage to get through to her in between her "Internet time", she says stuff like "Yes, I googled blah, blah blah" or "I've been looking around on the net". She did send me a text message yesterday to say that she had discovered the world of forums and even has a user name "Mega" What tha? It took me ages to get confidant enough to venture into them and here's my Mum a total newbie starting threads and posting like an old hat!

I am getting lots of e-mails from her though, complete with obligatory net talk like "Lol". Ok whole stole my Mum and cybered her?

For someone that was scared of catching virus's and trojans, she has certainly gotten over her fear!

Actually I did venture into chat rooms way back when they were just 128.35.1 200 (yes I do actually think that I remember the actual site number)

Nicole and I kidnapped a computer nerd and had him teach us how to hack into the computers at the library and into the chat rooms. It was just before we did our first trip to Canada and Nicole got chatting to a guy in Colorado. Long story short, we decided that we would make a quick trip from Canada down to visit him. Now remember we were barely 18 and totally naive to the dangers of the world. No way would you do it now!

So we flew into Colorado airport and was picked up Ross's Mum (no doubt so she could ascertain why these 2 18 year olds wanted to meet up with her son) We went back to their house and spent the next few nights there. I'm not sure who we expected to meet, but Ross was a very sweet 14 YEAR OLD!!!! How in the hell he managed to convince his parents that it would be a good idea to have 2 18 year old Australian's come stay I'll never know. Can you just imagine how much he would have talked that up at school (yes he was still at school!)

So anyway we spent a lovely Easter with him and his family, they took us sightseeing and skiing and took us to the place that 4 USA states meet.

Seriously though, how dangerous and stupid was that?

Never in a pink fit would I allow my child to do that now, I guess we just got lucky.