“It’s true, you can break the internet.”
June 30th, 2010 § Leave a Comment
I love my parents’ incompetence when it comes to computers.
“But wait! Isn’t your dad a computer technician?!” you ask? Yes. He knows tons of stuff about computers. He knows more than the average person, and he fixes problems pretty well, too. However, it’s just little things, basic stuff, that he lacks. He still needs to look down at the keyboard when he types. It doesn’t make any sense, seeing as he is a computer technician, but he types so excruciatingly slow that it drives me crazy. Also, he refuses to use the search box on a website. Let’s say he’s browsing through Amazon, and I want to look at a product that he has already seen. He will not go to the search box and type what I want (slowly), but instead, he will say no, press the back button, browse that page, repeat 20 times, until he finds it.
Little things.
Oh, and my mom. Where do I begin? Well, she has recently been able to use the computer for basic needs, the interwebs and stuff. She’s not that great, but getting better. Actually, I can recall one funny instance where I was surprised to find her in front of the computer, logged in.
“You know how to turn it on?!”
No, this question is not uncalled for. She simply did not use computers at that time, and wasn’t really willing to learn. But now, of course, is better than way back then. She isn’t on her way to being a programmer, but can use the computer for basic stuff. Although, she gets paranoid when a harmless message from Windows or Firefox pops up, thinking that she did something wrong.
Nevertheless, I believe full well that my children won’t have to worry about these things…or perhaps a newer technology will come up and I’ll be inept at operating that.
(“Mom, why are you still using an iPod? That’s so old school!”)
Nah, I guarantee that there will still be iPods in the future, since Apple fanboys crave more of the shiny. Although, I can say that “Back in my day, we had this device called a Game Boy. And you can’t beat the console games that go into a Nintendo 64!” which will prompt eye-rolls and the like.
