Appa and the Internet

In the mid ninety's (it makes me feel so old when I write this) when the act of creating or having a yahoo and hotmail email accounts were considered geeky and classy my dad sat down next to me one day and asked me to explain this whole thingy about the email ...internet and stuff...I got all enthu and started by saying the procedure to create an account first which can be used for sending and receiving emails.. given the fact how detail oriented my dad is he started off with his questionnaire session...what is that you call a password....when u hit the send button where is your content exactly stored , in the satellite...what is the meaning of yahoo....what do you mean when you say right click the mouse or left click ...to be honest I tried my best to control my laughter at certain instances and tried to say that it is enough if he knows the procedure in steps to start with..but at some point he got frustrated and he got up and said he would better join a class to learn these things and there it ended. After I got married and came to the US I had told him so many times to learn to use the internet and send emails as it will make the communication better instead of calling or waiting for my call...and now after 8 years he is visiting US again, he asked me to teach him about the whole thingy about email and stuff...I kid u not the whole saga of questions came out again...he is so apprehensive in trying out or exploring for himself that he intmidates himself more with his questions...finally I said that I will create an account on his name and would operate it on his behalf. He has been happily giving out his email Id to whoever he is talking to and my job is to get a print out of his emails and type the reply for them as he dictates...fun !!