Please mail me the Internet
True story that happened to me today: someone asked me to snail mail them a copy of one of my blog entires and gave me their home address.
The first question that comes to mind is how they figured out how to get to my blog and leave a comment on it without figuring out how to save a web page or print it. Furthermore, what made them think I would honour their request to mail them a copy of my blog entry? (I'm not going to.)
Is this type of user representative of an average web user or a less-than-average web user? How many people like this are out there and do they matter?
Being a computer engineer, I really take computer literacy for granted. This type of encounter with lay people gives me an interesting perspective on the type of audience my products may attract when building the Internet.