• HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.org
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    12 hours ago

    I will say there was a period around the turn of the century where everything got very “My This, My That, My Everything” branded. I think after e-Everything but before iEverything. It felt like living in a world designed by a three-year-old in the “My” phase.

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      5 hours ago

      Made tech support confusing.

      “Okay, so Open My Computer”

      Your computer?”

      "No, your ‘My Computer’ "

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      11 hours ago

      Ugh, I still hate when something uses the “My____” format.

      It always makes me thing of “Fisher Price My First ______” like I’m being belittled.

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      9 hours ago

      Microsoft started it in 1995 with “my computer” on windows 95. They replaced it with “computer” just 12 years later with Vista.