I cant believe this

No stupid the quick reply box is the browser.
 
when i click the funny furry icon, i come here
is this my browser?
 
for the people who answered "google" for "what browser do you use?", they are technically correct, but they probably don't use Google Chrome since they don't know what it is.


pathetic.
 
Never underestimate people's technological illiteracy.

Some of those people seemed like a lot of fun to have around, though, like the jovial black guy and the flustered milf in sunglasses.
 
Common people, most of whom were above the age of 30, not knowing a computer term? I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS I MEAN WHAT THE HELL IT'S SO SIMPLE ALL US NERDS WHO SPEND OUR LIVES ON THE INTERNET KNOW IT WHY NOT YOU, RANDOM SIXTY-YEAR-OLD NEW YORK WOMAN?!
 
Lizardizzle said:
for the people who answered "google" for "what browser do you use?", they are technically correct, but they probably don't use Google Chrome since they don't know what it is.


pathetic.
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Do you know what a Brachialis is? Its not pathetic that people dont know what everything they use is. Most people couldnt name many of the important parts of their car are, or what arm muscle they use to move their arms, despite using them every day. Why would computers be any different?
 
We have classes at the library for people who don't know computers at all. I heard one woman come out and begin talking to one of the librarians and she said "I am still getting the hang of pasting"

But,

Darkside55 said:
Common people, most of whom were above the age of 30, not knowing a computer term? I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS I MEAN WHAT THE HELL IT'S SO SIMPLE ALL US NERDS WHO SPEND OUR LIVES ON THE INTERNET KNOW IT WHY NOT YOU, RANDOM SIXTY-YEAR-OLD NEW YORK WOMAN?!
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This.
 
shut up...once i almost considered assigning a shortcut to HL2.net, to one of my laptop quick keys. :E


but i agree with the guys interviewed. the best browser is google, followed up by broadband connection.
 
Krynn72 said:
Do you know what a Brachialis is? Its not pathetic that people dont know what everything they use is. Most people couldnt name many of the important parts of their car are, or what arm muscle they use to move their arms, despite using them every day. Why would computers be any different?
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You don't have to read the name of a Brachialis then double-click a picture of it every day.
 
Darkside55 said:
Common people, most of whom were above the age of 30, not knowing a computer term?
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I agree. A number of those people were a generation above us, and for many of them I assume the internet is merely a tool. They click the internet button to go on the internet, and that's how it works.

Still, people are stupid etc etc ONLY IN AMERICA I'D LIKE TO SEE YOU KNOW WHAT A BROWSER IS BETTER ASSHOLE
 
I'm really not surprised. I basically had to force my aunt to get off of DIALUP, and this was about a month ago.
 
StardogChampion said:
You don't have to read the name of a Brachialis then double-click a picture of it every day.
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Your browser actually says browser? And you dont need to know the name of the type of program to double click its icon or know what it does for you.
 
Working with the technical sides of schools....I have lost hope in regular people knowing anything about computers.

"Left click or right click?"
"What's a browser" *Yes, I've heard it...not making it up for this thread."
"Where's internet?"
"I have no start bar."
"I don't use windows, I use XP."

**** I HATE NEW YORK CITY.
 
at least we didn't hear this, "Whe gots dem internets and thays goe on line and eyes go to da porno pages when my momma aint around"

its typical that most people don't know computers and stuff like that. at work I'm plagued by really dumb questions and most people don't even know what the difference between a modem and a router is....let alone HDTV and SDTV
 
Can't access printer???....................It's here! I CAN ACCESS PRINTER, WHY CAN'T YOOOU ACCESS PRINTER?
 
I guess its understandable that they don't know the techie jargon , it just makes developing really hard when users don't know what a good browser is.

edit: love the eddie izzard reference.
 
Weell..if I'm fond of some application, object whatever and I use it daily I eventually try to find out more how it works. Simple curiosity I guess, but that's just me...

So that way, whenever there is something faulty with whatever I'm using and I need to make further inquires from someone with more knowledge, I already have some basic understanding of how it works as well as what it is usually referred to (ie. jargon). That way I won't make such a fool out of myself :p "Hey, uh, there's something wrong with the thingie, you know, whatsitcalled, the thing that makes weird noises and stuff...you know...yeah, damn shit won't work ....so fix it ok?".

The argument with old people's illiteracy with modern technology is understandable to a point I guess.....they're old people after all.
 
Lizardizzle said:
for the people who answered "google" for "what browser do you use?", they are technically correct, but they probably don't use Google Chrome since they don't know what it is.


pathetic.
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My thoughts exactly.
 
Why can't I ever get asked these sorts of things, as well as other things they try to pin on Americans, when I go out?

Oh wait...
 
But, the point is that people didn't know what a BROWSER was.

The simplest tool possible for accessing the interwebs. It's the base for every computer which wants to access the internets, and that people don't know it is silly.

I know what an ignition is. I know what a car starter is. Hell, I know what the aircraft ignition is. It's acceptable for people not to know what stuff like HTML code or a Source code for a webpage is, but not knowing the basic tool of browsing itself is unacceptable.
 
What's actually worse is that people think that their monitors are the computer.

"I thought that the tower was just a big 'On' button."

No shit, I've heard that one. What's worse is that some of my teachers think that by hitting the monitor it might make the computer go faster. Like a TV with a bad antenna.
 
They just dont know what the name of it is. Its not that ridiculous really.

@ Van Halen. A couple years ago I called up my mom to ask her to turn off my computer since i wasnt going to be home any time soon. She told me she kept hitting the power button but the big box was still making noise. Turns out she was just turning the monitor on and off.
 
My grandmother once called me up to look at her computer, since it wouldn't turn on.

She was just hitting the monitor button. I hit the tower's power button, and everything worked fine.

;_;
 
wiki said:
A web browser is a software application for retrieving, presenting, and traversing information resources on the World Wide Web.
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for any of you who actually couldn't define it. My definition didn't have "traversing" in it though, am i stupids?

"what are you doing?"
"traversing the internet"
"shut up and browse/surf like the rest of us, you aren't walking across the sarengeti"
 
"Search engine" is a pretty okay response really. It's a good guess by the uninformed.

I'd say it's probably the sign of a good browser that most people don't realise that they're using one.
 
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