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During the summer of 2006 English Grandmother Celia Blay found herself spending more and more time on the internet.

At almost 60 years of age Celia was a retired teacher and a self-professed technophobe with minimal computer experience.

But after both of her elderly parents died in quick succession,

Celia found that being online was a good distraction from her grief.

Although Celia kept horses and had a small business making whips for carriages.

These hobbies weren't enough to fill up her days.

Celia liked to browse newsgroups within the Usenet system. News groups operated the same way as

message forums with separate groups dedicated to all kinds of subjects such as

pop culture, music, travel, and many others. Celia mostly stuck to the history news group

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