Months before her 91st birthday, a senior gamer is still polishing her computing skills.

Huddled over a computer in the corner of her bedroom, Betty Strandberg busily types on her keyboard, chatting to herself and online. "So we are behind? Shame," Strandberg says as she gazes at a series of playing cards on the screen. "I hope I get a more exciting hand than this sometime." She never thought she would one day sit at home and play bridge with people all over the world as if they were sitting across from each other. As "Tech Live" reports tonight, it's quite a change from when Strandberg first started playing bridge 75 years ago.

Strandberg is 90 years old and will be 91 in December.

The mother of three and grandmother of three is part of a growing trend. A recent Pew Internet Research Report titled Wired Seniors found that 15 percent of US seniors have Internet access and 69 percent of those seniors access the Internet on a regular basis. The report also says the fastest-growing wired senior group is women over 65.

Strandberg is a Life Master at the game of bridge. She has just joined a game at OKbridge, where anyone with a browser can play bridge with other players in real time.

"One time I played with people in four different continents," Strandberg said. "One time, a woman was chatting with me in Turkish, which I don't understand, but the cards was the universal language that we communicated with."

Never too late

"I got my first computer when I was 83 and started taking courses," Strandberg said.

Once a week Strandberg takes a computer class provided by SeniorNet, a national nonprofit organization that provides computer education to the 50-plus crowd.

Currently she's learning to master Microsoft Word so she can write her life's history. "There's a whole lot of history when you've lived this long," Strandberg said.

The Pew study reports that three out of every five seniors say the Internet has improved their communication with loved ones. Despite the positive number, the study indicates that 56 percent of seniors over the age of 65 would not go online, whereas only 6 percent would.

"I have friends within a few years of me that say they don't want to bother learning," Strandberg said. She added that they tell her it's "going to be too time-consuming."