Selected news stories about the Pew Internet Project and articles citing our data.
World of computers open as 76-year-old finds ‘On’
5/7/2004 | 
Coverage
Peter St. Onge, The Charlotte Observer, 1B
'Tuesday morning. Just before 9. Everett Gourley is first to arrive to class. He walks in the door, shakes his instructor's hand, smiles. "I did not sleep well last night," he says. He is 76 years old, and he has spent much of his adult life around classrooms. As a school administrator. As a tutor. But he is a student this morning, here at his church, Covenant Presbyterian, to take a class for seniors. Today, he will learn how to turn a computer on. He casts a glance at a monitor and printer on his desk. "When you get old," he says, "you don't want to learn about anything new." He is among the 78 percent of Americans over 65 who don't use the Internet, according to a new study by the Pew Internet and American Life Project. That number is dwindling, although, like Gourley, some are reluctant. He doesn't have a computer. He doesn't plan on getting one.
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