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A Internet Grandma Surprise post.
A website asks your gran to accept cookies. She's delighted. She types that she'd prefer shortbread, then rings you to ask when they'll arrive. "Press any key to continue." At the library computer your grandad has been looking for the Any key for twelve minutes. He has found the Home key, and is now wondering whether it will take him home. On the Christmas video call she holds the tablet up to her ear, like a phone. You talk to her ear for ten minutes. It's a lovely ear. Afterwards she says it was the best call you've ever had. She has learnt to text. Every message is signed "Love, Grandma" so you'll know it's her, and ends with LOL, which she believes means lots of love. "The cat has been sick on the rug again, LOL." **Why it caught on:** a stock photo of an elderly woman lifting her glasses at a laptop was picked up by Redditors in 2011 as Internet Grandma. Her amazement is anyone meeting confusing new technology, and most of us taught a grandparent to email and were taught patience in return.