Do your parents a favor today: update their browser
Dan Seitz So, you’re at your parents’ house. You’ve eaten five pounds of turkey, with another five pounds of sides, and a six pack on top of it. You’re avoiding the malls like the plague and you don’t want to watch post-Thanksgiving TV because it’s pretty much all about Christmas bunnies and career women discovering the true meaning of the holidays is hating on feminism or whatever. So, do something constructive while you’re waiting for that food to digest, and update their damn browser already.
Look, these tasks probably generally fall to you: just speaking for myself, I’ve so far personally dragged my father into the Internet Age on three separate occasions by buying him a wireless router, a Roku box, and a computer that wasn’t ten years old, and then setting two out of three of them up (full credit to my girlfriend with the Roku: she figured out how he’d wired a DVR, a VCR and a DVD player to a TV the size of a house manufactured in the Clinton administration).
And your parents are a problem on the Internet because they’re probably still using Internet Explorer 6, like 10% of the Internet, and, considering it’s ten years old, means the Internet has to stay technologically backwards in order to let people use it. So, even just getting them up to the current version of IE would be a great help to the Internet.
Don’t spring a new browser on them unless they want it, though: old people are easily spooked by change. And get pissed if you lose all their bookmarks to those home improvement videos.
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