So, my Grampa is celebrating his 89th birthday today. He was a dairy farmer and a plumber and pretty amazing guy. He has recently fully restored an old Studebaker and just bought another one (from 1917) to work on. He's got all sorts of engines and incredibly mechanical machinery, and now he'd like to leverage the knowledge and social base of the internet to learn more about what he has, potentially sell some of it, and tell people what he knows.<p>I'm helping him catalog his collection and am researching some of the more interesting pieces for him, but he really wants to be doing this himself. I had dinner with him last night and he was literally fist pumping and yelling "I want to go online!" He's smart, but not savvy about this stuff, and prior attempts to teach him how to use his computer and navigate the web haven't gone well. I'd love to make this happen for him, but figured there might be other people who have more experience getting folks like my grampa online.<p>Thanks for any thoughts or considerations!
It would be awesome if you could upload the images and post the link. Studebakers are lovely.<p>Now, you should go and get your Grandpa an iPad (if you can). Tablets are very easy to use, and are the most un-computer like device there is. Browsing the web and typing in stuff is just a matter of using your fingertips.
Find a forum with his interests and use that to introduce him to the web.<p>You can teach him the basics of how to get there walk him through creating an account and making a post (most of these forums have an introduction section).
Perhaps try to explain the mechanics of the web first. Give him the parts knowledge, so he can build an understanding of what's going on under the hood.<p>Then show him google.
curious about what didn't go well the first few times he went online. What was the outcome of him, the Google search box, and a few hours of privacy?<p>an aside: you could create an account in his name on a popular car restoration forum, and let him introduce himself, lurk, share, whatever.