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Celery Makes Twitter Nice and Digestible, Especially For Grandma

by Tim Stevens on December 18, 2009 at 02:20 PM

You may still not have acquired a taste for Celery, but chances are your grandparents have, or they will have if they have a fax machine. Confused? Celery is a way to allow those without computer smarts to e-mail and Twitter via paper, as 80-year-old Dorothy Miller demonstrates to WTEN News 10.

Celery has been around for a while, but Twitter integration is new. To use it, the person simply writes their tweet onto a sheet of paper and feeds it into a fax machine. It's received by the Celery system, which does a little character recognition and posts it online. Tweets by those that the Celery user follows are aggregated together and, once a day, faxed back to them to read -- after finishing the New York Times crossword or their evening programs, of course. Also, as Dorothy explains, it keeps needless conversation conveniently brief.

It's hardly efficient or eco-friendly for that matter, but if you want to get your nanna, gramma, or grammy online, it's certainly a lot easier than teaching them Windows. Video demonstration below. [From: Mashable]

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