Home » Internet

Computers and Internet according to “normal” users!

20 December 2007 3 Comments

* Internet Explorer is more commonly known as “the Internet” when you say “open the Internet”, you mean opening IE. You have no idea what a “browser” is, or that there are alternatives to IE.

* Even search engines aren’t excluded from the above; to go to Yahoo, you search for “yahoo” in MSN Search or Google (whichever you use as your start page).

* You’d never even think of using the Internet for leisure or learning; there’s nothing even vaguely interesting there. (Exception: chat rooms and MSN Messenger are cool. You can even meet babes!) Any new page you visit is because a friend or co-worker emailed the link to you.

* The more extra toolbars on “the Internet” (see above), the better and more useful it is, even if you end up with 8 different search boxes, and never actually use them.

* All computers in the world run Windows. You don’t know what an “operating system” is, and don’t imagine that anyone could possibly want to use something instead of Windows. (Exception: if you’re older, you may remember that, decades ago, computers ran MS-DOS, which was much harder to use because you had to type (and memorize) gibberish-like commands.)

* There are, exactly, two games in the world: Solitaire and Minesweeper. You’d never, ever think of searching for, much less download, another one.

* There’s no such thing as a “word processor”, or a “spreadsheet”. There is Word, and Excel, respectively. It’s inconceivable that there could ever be a computer without them.

Source

If you are in India and planning to buy books / mobile / gadgets online, I suggest you have a look at flipkart. It is one of the best online store in India and they offer free home delivery and cash on delivery for most products.

Related Posts

3 Comments »

  • C Shivashankar said:

    Hi Ranjit,
    “Wish you a happy new year”
    This article made interesting and informative reading for normal users like me, hope to see more such articles.

  • visundaram said:

    Dear Sir,
    Th information is very useful to a person of my age.

    Regards

  • coolnhow said:

    well.. u forgot to add ram stuff…
    my classmate says he has a 80 GB ram ;)

Leave your response!

Add your comment below, or trackback from your own site. You can also subscribe to these comments via RSS.

Be nice. Keep it clean. Stay on topic. No spam.

You can use these tags:
<a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <strike> <strong>

This is a Gravatar-enabled weblog. To get your own globally-recognized-avatar, please register at Gravatar.