Sometimes the penny does not drop

In configuring the desktop computer, formerly known as the Internet Virgin (I think she may have to be renamed Madonna because she's proving a very material girl...) for the internet,  I went with my favorite browser and mail programs.  Oboyoboy I can get email that comes up on a screen with the chair right in front of it.  I can sit up straight(er) and the font's naturally bigger on a bigger screen (never mid tht it's an ancient Vivitron 17 sold me by Gateway and still bearing the Gateway logo