wats a browser

[jimbojones.livejournal.com]

As part of their campaign to promote Chrome, Google pulled a Leno and wandered around Times Square asking well-dressed, well-groomed, apparently successful people a ridiculously simple question - in this case, "Do you know what a browser is?"

Just like on Leno, turns out those "apparently successful" people are dumber than a bag of fucking hammers.

Comments

[arabwel.livejournal.com]

...this broke my brain.

[lillyflowers.livejournal.com]

*speechless*

[shifuimam.livejournal.com]

My mom thinks that Google is "The Internet". She literally types a website in the Google box on her iGoogle homepage and then clicks the first search result to navigate to a site.

It makes me want to smack her in the face with her own keyboard. She gets pissy when I try to point out that she can type a URL directly into the magical address bar to go to a site, too...

[snyperwolf.livejournal.com]

I actually do this a lot as well. I mean, it's better than mistyping an address, and going to some bot infested site.

[doublefelix.livejournal.com]

Somehow I don't think that's why she's doing it though.

[karyn-rocks.livejournal.com]

Oh dear god. This is like, 95% of the people I talk to daily.



I can't stop my eye from twitching..

[dukesnorre.livejournal.com]

That makes your clientelle a leetle bit worse! Should have been just 92 %. ;)

[xforge.livejournal.com]

Every single call wherein I need to remote to someone's computer to help them:

"Okay, I need your IP address. You need to open your web browser..."

"Web browser?"

"Web browser. Internet Explorer."

(silence)

"The blue 'E' on your desktop!"

(silence)

"Like as if you were gonna go to Google!!!"

"OooooOOOoooOOoooHhhhhh, the Internet..."

(sound of me pounding forehead bloody on keyboard)

[sidekick2trout.livejournal.com]

This was amazing and just shows what happens every day in tech support. But per usual, the comments to the video are priceless.

[devilish69angel.livejournal.com]

*headache* these are the majority of my customers
"what broswer do you use?"
"microsoft" "yahoo" "mozerlla firefox" "the big blue e"

[natalie-i-am.livejournal.com]

At least you know what the last two are. Edumacated guess 1 and 2 are both IE as well.

I liked the guy who said he was using Firefox and the reason why "my friend came round deleted the other ones and said 'your using thing now'"

[red-scully.livejournal.com]

I have several friends to whom I've done this. They have no clue WTF is going on or why they should use Firefox, AVG, Ad-Aware etc... but they dutifully do it because 'computer girl' told them to. LOL.

[tayikhata.livejournal.com]

Then there's the sales guy I work with who was trying to get one of our clients to look at the source code for his website. Sales guy asks me how he can do that if the client doesn't have a View menu... so I asked which browser the client had.

"Just regular Internet." - this from a fellow whose job includes selling website building and web services.

(turns out "regular internet" is AOL. who knew.)

[red-scully.livejournal.com]

That makes me want to die.

It also reminds me of the time my mother called me all baffled about her email address. Turns out she'd forgotten what it was and didn't know how to 'find' it. So she asked her friend, who told her that Google knows everything. SO SHE GOOGLED HER NAME AND 'EMAIL ADDRESS' AND WONDERED WHY IT DIDN'T COME UP.

D: I'm going back to Helpdesk work on Wednesday after doing 3rd line for over a year. I'm regretting it already lol.