Everyone? You sure? Just off the top of my head, I’ve witnessed:
A fellow millennial recently calling his tower “the modem”.
A user who thinks a computer experiencing a “crash”, as in the unexpected termination of a process, means everything on the hard drive was just lost.
A teacher who swears their fiber optic internet connection always slows down when it rains.
A family member who thinks cell phones are actually miraculous.
An IT director who decided to save time while rewiring an entire school district’s network by forgoing patch panels completely, terminating hundreds of CAT-6 cables (which he first laid directly on top of the drop ceiling grid) with RJ45 connectors plugged straight into switches, labeling each with masking tape.
A police officer who called his chief and supervisor over to his desk in order to explain that he discovered a massive vulnerability on the agency website, demonstrating the risk by showing them how he was able to change some text with the browser’s element inspector.
A software developer who only used Internet Explorer (years ago when Chrome was still arguably the best option) because “Google tracks you”. He was later sentenced to decades in federal prison for organizing the production of CSAM on the surface web, not the darknet, mostly over Craigslist.
EVERYONE IS SO MUCH BETTER AT COMPUTERS THAN MEEEEEEEE
Everyone? You sure? Just off the top of my head, I’ve witnessed:
A fellow millennial recently calling his tower “the modem”.
A user who thinks a computer experiencing a “crash”, as in the unexpected termination of a process, means everything on the hard drive was just lost.
A teacher who swears their fiber optic internet connection always slows down when it rains.
A family member who thinks cell phones are actually miraculous.
An IT director who decided to save time while rewiring an entire school district’s network by forgoing patch panels completely, terminating hundreds of CAT-6 cables (which he first laid directly on top of the drop ceiling grid) with RJ45 connectors plugged straight into switches, labeling each with masking tape.
A police officer who called his chief and supervisor over to his desk in order to explain that he discovered a massive vulnerability on the agency website, demonstrating the risk by showing them how he was able to change some text with the browser’s element inspector.
A software developer who only used Internet Explorer (years ago when Chrome was still arguably the best option) because “Google tracks you”. He was later sentenced to decades in federal prison for organizing the production of CSAM on the surface web, not the darknet, mostly over Craigslist.
3 is possible if the physical run to your home is in bad shape. I’ve known two people who had weather dependant internet due to that.
6 got me LMAO
My boss called me immediately to tell me about that one because he knew I’d laugh my ass off.
To be fair to 4, cell phones are miraculous.
In its simplest form, they’re amalgamated rocks we taught to internally process lightning.