On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 8:28 PM, Roland Dobbins <rdobbins@arbor.net> wrote:
On 14 Nov 2015, at 11:32, Owen DeLong wrote:
Go out onto the street and ask a random number of people over 30 if they
know what a URL is and how to enter one into a browser.
They don't know what URIs are, nor do they enter them into browsers. They type words into a search engine and then click on the resulting links.
The don't know what a VPN is ... but when they can't watch the Olympics on the Internet from their own country, a buddy tells them about an "app" that "makes you look like you're coming from a different country." Now they can watch the Olympics. I saw this "one weird trick" spread like wildfire through my non-technical acquaintances. They don't have to know what a VPN is in order to to use it -- and to pass it on to their friends. Royce