Many of those are obviosly fake. Like the one about the guy changing the file association for EXE files to WinZip, or the 30000+ stories where people confuse WINDOWS WITH WINDOWS LOL ITS FUNNEY BECAUSE THEY'RE THE SAME WORD BUT ONE'S AN OPERATING SYSTEM AND THE OTHER IS A WINDOW, SO FUNNY LOL

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Many of those are obviosly fake. Like the one about the guy changing the file association for EXE files to WinZip, or the 30000+ stories where people confuse WINDOWS WITH WINDOWS LOL ITS FUNNEY BECAUSE THEY'RE THE SAME WORD BUT ONE'S AN OPERATING SYSTEM AND THE OTHER IS A WINDOW, SO FUNNY LOL

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You'd be surprised I think. I don't believe you've met as many computer illiterate people as I have.

Intosh...duh....

My mom is the worst. there was a "broadband" shortcut on the desktop that was a link to IE. I downloaded firefox and my mom went mental.
She said "Where the hell is broadband? Does that mean we're not on broadband any more?".

Also, when I was explaining something to her, I said "Close firefox now", and she said "how do you close it?".

Also, she made me uninstall my firewall because windows was telling her windows firewall wasn't on, and she said "why not?". I told her I had another one, and she said "well uninstall it and get the good windows one back on!".

Also, she wouldn't let me get AVG or anything, she would only have Norton because PC world recommended it.

Also, the modem was unplugged from her PC, and she told me when I got back from school that she spent an hour disconnecting all the wires and plugging everything in the right place because she didn't know what to plug in.

There's many more I can't be bothered to write.

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Also, a good one:

I had a bootup screen that said "connecting to NSA.gov" and she had a right go at me, saying stuff like "you could get in trouble for this" and "I don't want you getting into this".


Also, off topic:
She is really intolerant to language etc. If she sees a pic of someone undressing in a sig on this, she'll tell me to get it off, or she'll turn my PC off. Also, she makes me quit TF2 if people start swearing on it :/

AAAAALSOO!
if there's a sex ad on a page, she'll think I've been watching porn, and shout at me. Seriously, when she found porn on my PC ages a go I was grounded for 2 weeks and she wouldn't let me on the PC without her coming in the room every now and then.

Yeah, it sucks, just be grateful for how easy you've got it.

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My mom is the worst. there was a "broadband" shortcut on the desktop that was a link to IE. I downloaded firefox and my mom went mental.
She said "Where the hell is broadband? Does that mean we're not on broadband any more?".

Also, when I was explaining something to her, I said "Close firefox now", and she said "how do you close it?".

Also, she made me uninstall my firewall because windows was telling her windows firewall wasn't on, and she said "why not?". I told her I had another one, and she said "well uninstall it and get the good windows one back on!".

Also, she wouldn't let me get AVG or anything, she would only have Norton because PC world recommended it.

Also, the modem was unplugged from her PC, and she told me when I got back from school that she spent an hour disconnecting all the wires and plugging everything in the right place because she didn't know what to plug in.

There's many more I can't be bothered to write.

Good lord man! My mom just doesn't mess with it period.

Read my edits, and pity me :(

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Also this was before I had my PC, and we all shared one.

Thank god my father is a computer wiz and knows what all that is.




Saved me a load of hell

My mom was trying to find her resume on the computer one time, so I asked her where she saved it.
"I saved it in word..."

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My mom is the worst. there was a "broadband" shortcut on the desktop that was a link to IE. I downloaded firefox and my mom went mental.
She said "Where the hell is broadband? Does that mean we're not on broadband any more?".

Also, when I was explaining something to her, I said "Close firefox now", and she said "how do you close it?".

Also, she made me uninstall my firewall because windows was telling her windows firewall wasn't on, and she said "why not?". I told her I had another one, and she said "well uninstall it and get the good windows one back on!".

Also, she wouldn't let me get AVG or anything, she would only have Norton because PC world recommended it.

Also, the modem was unplugged from her PC, and she told me when I got back from school that she spent an hour disconnecting all the wires and plugging everything in the right place because she didn't know what to plug in.

There's many more I can't be bothered to write.

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Also, a good one:

I had a bootup screen that said "connecting to NSA.gov" and she had a right go at me, saying stuff like "you could get in trouble for this" and "I don't want you getting into this".


Also, off topic:
She is really intolerant to language etc. If she sees a pic of someone undressing in a sig on this, she'll tell me to get it off, or she'll turn my PC off. Also, she makes me quit TF2 if people start swearing on it :/

AAAAALSOO!
if there's a sex ad on a page, she'll think I've been watching porn, and shout at me. Seriously, when she found porn on my PC ages a go I was grounded for 2 weeks and she wouldn't let me on the PC without her coming in the room every now and then.

Yeah, it sucks, just be grateful for how easy you've got it.

Nortons a good anti-virus bro.

You keep telling yourself that...

Personally i think McAfee + Advanced system care pro is a pretty good combo.

I use AVG, I'm just saying Norton is "decent".
Still prefer AVG over everything.

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You'd be surprised I think. I don't believe you've met as many computer illiterate people as I have.

most of these are also from the windows 95 and 98 era. so there were even more computer illiterate people back then.

I guess those newbies sometimes experience this.
Not only Americans, but I guess being computer illiterate
does not main your dumb. With proper guide and tutorial
one would success..:heh:

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Nortons a good anti-virus bro.

this is what some people actually believe.

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I guess those newbies sometimes experience this.
Not only Americans, but I guess being computer illiterate
does not main your dumb. With proper guide and tutorial
one would success..:heh:

br?

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Many of those are obviosly fake. Like the one about the guy changing the file association for EXE files to WinZip, or the 30000+ stories where people confuse WINDOWS WITH WINDOWS LOL ITS FUNNEY BECAUSE THEY'RE THE SAME WORD BUT ONE'S AN OPERATING SYSTEM AND THE OTHER IS A WINDOW, SO FUNNY LOL

yeah, those got old fast