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How to rename Silver Surfers? Just ask them.

My friends at Digital Unite organise Silver Surfers Day each year, with participation by hundreds of local centres introducing thousands of older people to computers and the online world.
They could do with a better name, and a blog post on “What do you call a person over 50 on a computer?” is producing lively discussion … including for reasons I don’t understand “Purple Surfers”. Maybe Deep Purple nostalgia. read more »