.. Are you sure this is due to being technologically illiterate? Alls I'm sayin' is... TVs have been around for a long, long time :P. Unless you guys have one of those newfangled cable boxes and the remote that does everything. We just got one and I only use like two of the buttons on that remote.
For my own mother, she didn't understand what a "window" was when opening files/web browser. When tabs came along, I didn't even want to try explaining that to her.
.. Are you sure this is due to being technologically illiterate? Alls I'm sayin' is... TVs have been around for a long, long time :P. Unless you guys have one of those newfangled cable boxes and the remote that does everything. We just got one and I only use like two of the buttons on that remote.
Well, given there's a massive bright red button with the word "power" written on it, it was pretty bad.
Watching her try to use a computer for anything other than Microsoft Word = instant entertainment.
My dad kept pushing greyed out buttons until a few year ago. I kept telling him that you cant press it if its greyed out but he woldnt listen, and sometimes he eaven said "what did you do" (like he was asking if i broke it). Funny thing tho is that he's been working with computers most of his life alot. He can do some preaty high tech stuff but for some reason he just couldnt get it trough his skull that a greyed out button means that you cant press it.
I can't think of any specific ones, but back in the PS1/N64 era, I remember my mom would always turn off the TV, thinking that it turned the console off too.
IF I leave my Xbox360 on without telling her she'll move it while the disc is still in there. She keeps call my Xbox 360 a "Nintendo", and that's about it. They're both pretty Literate in the Fields of Technology me thinks.
I can't think of any specific ones, but back in the PS1/N64 era, I remember my mom would always turn off the TV, thinking that it turned the console off too.
My mom is convinced that having a browser open while she is doing her taxes means that people can see what she's doing. I've tried to explain to her that it doesn't work like that, but she won't listen. Also, ironically, she is convince that since she has Norton antivirus NOTHING can hurt her computer.
Well, just this morning, I got called for help at the computer by my mother. She had caught some virus which kept redirecting her to some shady ads whenever she opened her browser.
"MOM!"
"What? :("
"You broke the internet!"
"...Is that bad? :shock:"
"I'm just messing with you, let me run Norton or something :lol:"
I wish I could remember some of the funny things my parents used to say, but now they've actually learned how to work the computer and do pretty much anything with it.
My Dad still types with two fingers as if he's trying to punch through the keyboard, though.
IF I leave my Xbox360 on without telling her she'll move it while the disc is still in there. She keeps call my Xbox 360 a "Nintendo", and that's about it. They're both pretty Literate in the Fields of Technology me thinks.
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At least she doesn't try to stick the disc in the console while the disc tray is closed like my mom. :lol:
Well, just this morning, I got called for help at the computer by my mother. She had caught some virus which kept redirecting her to some shady ads whenever she opened her browser.
"MOM!"
"What? :("
"You broke the internet!"
"...Is that bad? :shock:"
"I'm just messing with you, let me run Norton or something :lol:"
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I would run to my room and cry if someone responded with that to me.
Well, just this morning, I got called for help at the computer by my mother. She had caught some virus which kept redirecting her to some shady ads whenever she opened her browser.
"MOM!"
"What? :("
"You broke the internet!"
"...Is that bad? :shock:"
"I'm just messing with you, let me run Norton or something :lol:"
Nintendevil
I would run to my room and cry if someone responded with that to me.
Hopefully, she's got a very good sense of humor. I merely got a playful smack on the back of the head :P
When you sign up for Facebook they send you an email to confirm, something like 'Thank you for joining Facebook! Click here to sign in" and my mom, I swear everytime she signs into Facebook she opens up that email and clicks the link to sign in, she doesn't know how to get to Facebook otherwise. I tried to explain it to her but she doesn't listen.
My mom always tells me to help my little sister set up itunes on a mac computer. For some reason she won't believe me when I tell her that all Macs come with Itunes already installed.
How did WE(this generation) suddenly understand how PC's work. I just don't get that. I mean, nobody explained to me what a window or tab is and yet eventually I just got it.
"How can I move my e-mails onto a new computer?" I've explained to my mom several times that you can access your e-mails from any computer that is connected to the internet, but she just kept asking that.
How did WE(this generation) suddenly understand how PC's work. I just don't get that. I mean, nobody explained to me what a window or tab is and yet eventually I just got it. th3warr1or
were the only generation to grow up with them. computers only really hit the mainstream in the 90s.
[QUOTE="th3warr1or"]How did WE(this generation) suddenly understand how PC's work. I just don't get that. I mean, nobody explained to me what a window or tab is and yet eventually I just got it. AIRWALKTDK666
were the only generation to grow up with them. computers only really hit the mainstream in the 90s.
But it still doesn't explain how all of a sudden we knew what to do.. Nobody explained anything to us.. I'm still not an expert in computer stuff, but like.. I know what I'm doing at least.
I once had to guide my mom over the phone on how to remove a video card from a PC. She asked various questions like "where is the motherboard" and "where are the screws that hold it in?".
"Do you have the number for that website?" -Vice President Joe Biden
"What's that Avatar thing again?" -Vice President Joe Biden
What a ****ing idiot.
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Lol, Number for a website :P
Websites do have numbers, the URL is just a cover for the acutual numerical address. (GS = 216.239.113.172) Worst i've encountered is my IT teacher asked me how to turn the page in publisher after looking through the help file for half an hour....
[QUOTE="th3warr1or"]How did WE(this generation) suddenly understand how PC's work. I just don't get that. I mean, nobody explained to me what a window or tab is and yet eventually I just got it. AIRWALKTDK666
were the only generation to grow up with them. computers only really hit the mainstream in the 90s.
Yes but most people i know will try a few things out a quickly get a hold of completely new features without using any sort of guide.
My mom: "make sure you copy down that email. What if the power goes out and it destroys the email?"
She also did that "turning off the TV to turn off the console", and she claims she could be just as proficient on a computer as I am. "I can find recipies!" is her only argument: the fact that ten years ago, she used a computer for ten minutes and still needed my help (when I was five).
I had the same problem explaining "windows" to my mom, when I showed her tabs and she said "wait, how does that work?" I walked out of the room. She just discovered the quick launch thing on her macbook. shes had it for over a year...
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