Yet smart minds were thinking up the technology behind today's computers and the Internet.

VOA: special.2009.08.16

"Rather than try to bring a lot of infrastructure to them and expect them to learn how to use the Internet, the idea was to make a technology that even Grandma could use, figuring that Grandma could probably walk up to a box and push a button."

VOA: special.2009.10.12

Egypt's Minister of Communications and Information Technology Tarek Kamel announced the move at the fourth Internet Governance Forum, under way in the Egyptian resort Sharm el-Sheikh.

VOA: standard.2009.11.16

Erin Jansen,founder of Netlingo, an online dictionary of Internet and text messaging terms, also says the new technology has not fundamentally changed existing language but added immensely to the vocabulary.

VOA: standard.2010.01.16