Hear, hear! My mom single-handedly started her own local ISP back in the mid-90s, days of Mosaic. I was the lucky teenager with a T1 in the basement...You know

Hear, hear! My mom single-handedly started her own local ISP back in the mid-90s, days of Mosaic. I was the lucky teenager with a T1 in the basement...You know how you have a swimming pool and people would stop by as they were 'in the neighborhood' and their bathing suits are conveniently under their clothes? People would stop by and just happen to have a Jaz disk (remember those?!?) in their purses. Yes, their purses! Ladies like to download giant files through a big pipe, too, and were doing plenty of it in the 90s. She still runs her own network and servers and is known to curse politely about DNS, among her other 15 jobs in tech (she's a consultant, she works too much). But I shouldn't have to mention any of this, that a woman excels technically and makes her living with computers is not exceptional, it's not a surprise, and she's not an anomaly (although, my Mom is exceptional, of course!). Why is it that most of us work closely with women of all ages in a technical capacity every day in the real world, and yet we keep writing stuff like, "So easy your Mom could do it?" It's like we somehow forget how we've spent 3500 hours of our lives. We could possibly say, instead, "Why your Grandma and Grandpa might like Google+," but that may not apply, either. My Grandma's been on Facebook for ages; she was a big AIM user, too, back in the late '90s, early '00s. But one thing is true - I'll play around with Google+, but I likely won't spend a lot of time on it until my Grandma's on it... :)