Hi, Helena: In spite of huge resistance, I was bullied into learning w. an eMac in 1998 by my daughter. She ordered lots of expensive, mysterious things by phone while she was here for the holidays,and then went back to Providence. A week after Xmas, these huge boxes and my MC bill arrived. I had to hire a teen-ager to install and give me lessons for a year, but it turned out to be fun. And one day, I mysteriously caught on.
The Mac has always been more user-friendly than the PCs, of course. And then, about 130 members (smart women) of my college class started a listserv; so we were ahead of the curve (then, at least). Now there are the gadgets....but I really haven't much interest. I keep a little cell phone for the days when I slip off an icy road into the ditch, and that's it. I will have to deep-six my poor old CRT TVs in two years, I understand, and cable hasn't arrived here.
All my cousins, in their 60s, are online - some more slap-dash than others - and some of the generation older than I (yes, it is possible) use webtv. Ben's grandpa Joe, for example. My mother's BF gave lessons until he died a few years ago at 94. It's attitude, baby.