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these didnt happen to me, i was told of them
there is another thread but it is not as long. http://www.gaiaonline.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=11735194&
if you want more post and tell me and i will add more

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Two students, who had spent the better part of their class hour bragging about their computer skills, were becoming increasingly frustrated while browsing the Internet. They were trying to access a site that didn't exist, but they were absolutely convinced the trouble was something else.

* Student #1: "The damn keyboard locked up again!!!"

Actually, a page was loading.

* Student #2: "Here, you have to pull the wires out." (yanks network wires out of the back) "When that happens, just pull those wires out and shove 'em back in. Does it work now?"
* Student #1: "No, it says, 'Reading File...Done.'"
* Student #2: "Oh, ok...that means your keyboard server is down. There's nothing you can do about it."

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I taught web design one summer to a group of underprivileged teenagers. At the end of the informal course, the "course assessor" (a senior academic who was formally in charge of the course but knew nothing about computers) came to see the students' webpages. Upon looking at the first student's monitor screen, she exclaimed, "Oh, that's beautiful!"

The student looked perplexed. I walked around to look at the student's screen, and saw...the Windows 95 desktop. The student hadn't yet displayed her webpage. The academic was praising the beauty of the desktop.

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I'm a high school senior. One day, we were partnered with another class to do an Internet project. Web site design is a hobby of mine, so I happily displayed one of my pages to my partner in Internet Explorer. My partner, in a vain attempt to scare me or tease me or something, highlighted all the text on the web page and threatened to delete it.

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Student: "I can't find the place to type in the URT."
Teacher: "The what?"
Student: "You know the URT -- the thing that starts with 'www'?"
Teacher: "Oh, URL."
Student: "Whatever. Where do I type it?"
Teacher: "On the blank line at the top."
Student: "Where?"
Teacher: "At the top!"
Student: "I see no line."
Teacher: "Is Netscape open?"
Student: "Does it have to be?"

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Our school requires all students to take a computer class. My class has to have some of the stupidest people I've ever met.

* Teacher: "Does anyone know what HTML means?"
* Student: "That means something?!"
* Me: "Hypertext Markup Language."
* Teacher: "Correct, have any of you ever used HTML?"

I'm the only one who raises a hand.

* Teacher: "Great! We'll be doing some simple HTML by the end of the year."
* Me: (bangs head on desk)
* Student: "How do you use HTML? Is it like typing?"

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I work as the graphic/computer designer at a printshop. A while back, I got a phone call from someone who works for a major ISP who asked to have an image scanned. He said he wanted me to scan in the image to a one meg JPEG file so he could email it to people and use it on web pages. He didn't give me any dimensions, just the file size. I explained that this was rather large for use online and that even if he had a fast modem or a direct line, others might not.

* Customer: "Oh, well I want it this way because, even though the Internet won't allow you to send files that large, the ISP I work for can."

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A friend of mine just bought a new computer and asked me to show him how to download programs off the web. The poor guy is completely clueless with anything computer related. I showed him a couple of the more popular sites and started a download. While waiting, I made the comment about how slow telephone access can be. He sat there staring at the paper sheet icon move between the world and folder icons for a few moments, and then said: "Well if you move the folder closer to the Earth, then the program won't have so far to travel, and it'll download faster." I nearly fell out of my chair laughing.

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One evening around midnight, I decided to book a flight for the weekend using NorthWest Airlines Cybersaver deals. On their site, they provide a link to National Car Rental. The URL was http://www.nationalcar.com/cgi-bin/cyber1_res.pl. Upon completing the form for a car reservation, I received a message saying, "Your request has been sent." I never received a confirmation. After trying three more times, I called tech support.

* Me: "I tried reserving a car on your web site, but I do not get a response."
* Tech Support: "Let me get your reservation number, and I can look it up."
* Me: "I didn't get one."
* Tech Support: "Well, let's go to the web site and check it out. Go to www.nationalcar.com."
* Me: "Actually, I'm on a promotional part of your web site for NorthWest Airlines."
* Tech Support: "That's not our web site. Our web site is at www.nationalcar.com."
* Me: "That's where I am at."
* Tech Support: "No, it is not."
* Me: "Yes, I am at www.nationalcar.com/cgi-bi--"
* Tech Support: "Sir, anything after the slash is not our web site. You are on someone else's web site."
* Me: "Uh...no, that is your URL. The link points to your servers. The system is on your server."
* Tech Support: "No sir, it is not. You are on someone else's server."

I hung up. Upon arriving at the airport, I found I had three cars in my name. Apparently the system simply sends an email to the regional office, then they manually reserve a car. Some system, eh?

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I worked one summer at a Radio Shack that also owned its own ISP. My job dealt with the ISP billing, but since my bosses and coworkers knew I was proficient with computers, I would also be referred to tech support calls. One gentleman called in because he was clicking and nothing was happening. He was trying to set up Microsoft Outlook to check his email account that he received as an ISP customer, and he was, with good intent, following the instructions we provided on our web site. I asked him what his screen looked like, and it seemed he was in the right place, but I still walked him through the steps again, all the time hearing him say, "I've done that. I'm clicking, and nothing's happening." As a last resort, I decided to ask the customer if he had actually run the program. He responded by saying, "Well, I just thought this thing ran it for me." I realized, to my great amusement, that he had been looking at our instructional web page the whole time and mistaking our screenshot of an Outlook screen for the actual program. I explained what was wrong, and all he had to say was, "You need to rewrite these instructions. They're very misleading."

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At work, an email was sent to me once requesting that I fill out an evaluation form on the web. However, if I were unable to access the site -- well, take a look:

For those evaluators who are unable to access [the site] while completing evaluations, a CD ROM or disk-based version of the application may be requested through an order form on [the site].

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At the end of the year, last year, all the eighth graders at my school had to go to the computer lab to do two things: fill out an anonymous survey detailing all the things we could do with computers (to tell the school how much they had taught us) and to register for high school online. Both were done through a web browser.

Well, I got finished pretty early, but the kid sitting next to me was going a little bit slower. I was watching him, and soon he got to the screen which said that all of his information had been sent and he was done. The teachers had told us that once we finished we should exit out of the browser window and get off the Internet and then shut down the computer, but the kid went to another web site instead.

The head computer teacher had been watching, and she freaked out. She started yelling about how all of the information he submitted would be erased, that he could have broken something, and that he was in deep trouble. The assistant computer teacher came over, as did my social studies teacher, and they were all of the mind that because the kid surfed to some other web site, all the information he submitted would be sent back or something.

I would have told them it was all fine, but I was laughing too hard. I don't think I could have gotten the words out.

thats happened to me before btw

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# Tech Support: "May I ask what operating system you are running today?"
# Customer: "A computer."

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One time I had to walk a Windows 95 user through a particular procedure.

* Me: "First you need to open DOS-prompt. I'll guide you--"
* Customer: "MY COMPUTER DOES NOT HAVE DOS! YOU THINK I RUN THAT ANCIENT SOFTWARE?" (click)
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* Friend: "Does Windows 98 support Linux?"
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* Customer: "Do you sell Mac OS X for Windows?"
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