Right now my grandfather is using Ubuntu with iGoogle. All he does is go and look at his stocks and the news, but it works really well for him for that. Every now and then he googles something. He uses a trackball because we couldn't afford a big touchscreen and mice are extremely hard to use once you get beyond a certain age (which my experience shows to be curved around 70).
In other words -- my 90 year old grandfather is successfully using the internet through a dynamic home page and a command prompt.
In other words -- my 90 year old grandfather is successfully using the internet through a dynamic home page and a command prompt.