Jan 12, 2015 6:27 PM
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BringBackURF
"Ugh technology is so confusing"
CaptainDogWaffle
"Let me do it."
OverlyCynicalImgurian
This is weird. This is a redrawing of a 4chan MS paint comic, except redrawn worse than the original.
RoswellM
CAN'T READ MY, CAN'T READ MY!!!
pandaSloppy
Am I the only one to think that this post was related to finding of your porn history?
janedrew
True story: my boss asked me the other day how long it takes email to get to somewhere far away like Minnesota.
hollowback
This was made into an animation by guyjcollins https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fa9DLxDtPtc
Chikabananas
become the top comment, go go go!
BoilerTFUp
So are rage comics a thing again?
imnotgoingtodebateyoujerry
My sister would rather right click to copy and paste than use keyboard shortcuts. I have a hard time watching her use a computer.
pancreas
it's actually way easier. Only one hand required, and the right click menu has "search google for..." and "open link in new tab" right there
TheStoatMcGoats
I got a storage bin using quotes for their search, not a gear. OP lies! https://www.boltdepot.com/Product-Details.aspx?product=7579
passwordisreallyfish
I once had a friend who googled Google.com. While on the Google homepage...
Mossanony
26-year-old coworker asked me enter in Admin creds to install a simple label template. Install warning said "ASK.com toolbar". I am 50.
MuintirChonnemaraAnseo
Apart from the, obvious, biological-component reliability issue: THIS is why we couldn't call it Windows 9.
ProfessorSexyTime
ThisPizzaManCanMakeYourWorldTasteGood
Wait why is one dead and night the other with cat face
TotalSmartAss
Sigh.. my 54 year old friend just got their first PC and they want me to drop by on Sat to teach them the internet. Friday I kill myself.
ch4nces
I'm sorry ):
HitlersWetDream
Literally me with my parents
whydoispendsomuchtimehere
I have to show my mom every day where to write a fucking website. I can't handle it. Weirdly she knows how to use the scroll button.
MollyNapQueen
Same. But my mom is 75 so I'll allow it.
allanman
"No mom click chrome, not Internet Explorer"
CyanideSweetToothSuicide
The excuse "I'm not good with computers" is not valid if you're a 17 year old college freshman in 2015.
Staddi
Sadly it is, because they never learned to use a computer. They now just know how to use crippled webpages for smartphones and tablets.
icantbelieveijoined
To be fair dragging the scroll thumb is faster than the wheel if there is a lot to scroll
SolitaSoulSaysSi
Can we all just agree to do our best to keep up with changing technology and never stop learning? K thanx.
selfinflictedimgury
http://www.theonion.com/articles/getting-mom-onto-internet-a-sisyphean-ordeal,1404
Harmonex
I don't even have to click the link to know dis gon be gud.
OriginalCommenter938
Are there really no comments?
This is how it was in the days before usersub. Everything came from Reddit and it was a mad dash for top comment. Pepperidge Farm remembers!
sugar3
Is such a thing even possible?
jrmxrf
They are still typing.
EveryChickenInThisPlace
At 5 wpm
Yup. Came back to say Yup when I was done.
moxymox
Poker Face is now thinking some evil thoughts about Reddit feeding imgur.
michiganiscold
"But I like doing it my way"
Erilis
"Well, I'm no computer whiz"
EatinButtsAndBustinNuts
I work for a 60 year old boss who does this shit...ALL. THE. TIME. He signs the checks :/
marcshark
The right handed guys I work for uses the mouse left handed (very unsuccessfully) because that's how he was told to and "why change now" :/
ReallyBigRocks
Pro tip: you don't need to put the search in quotes, you can, you just really don't need to
0bjectsmayappear
I've tried to tell friends this even on some basic searches but they don't believe me. I gave up.
Abecx
Maybe if you're a basic bitch computer user. Try searching for esoteric knowledge without quotes instead of Pokemon misty nudes.
EveryoneGetsAFreeCat2
pantheranorvegicus
Yea I was confused about that.. I've never had to put any quotes.. and I'm a mastergoogler
blahdeedah
If it's a very specific search you're running you certainly do. Also, use your Boolean operators.
jitspoe
Google pretty much ignores anything you type in and gives results to whatever it wants to these days. I hate it.
DoingItWrongSince1980
You sure about that?
I was searching for how to unscrew a part on a paintball gun, and it returned results for laser hair removal. "unscrew" != "removal", etc.
baikinmon
http://imgur.com/x1SJAip
Wait, when did they fix that? For a while it blatantly ignored quotation marks and I had to use verbatim mode to get useful results.
WackTheHorld
http://www.reactiongifs.com/r/jcwd.gif
magellenable
The person at the computer should be 47 years old and also the woman who gave birth to me
kerbie
My boss does this sooo painful
lotny
I wish. I've seen 20-somethings not using the scroll wheel, also not double clicking but clicking on something and pressing enter instead.
Hey now....
SoOddICantEven
I recently talked my mom through installing anti-malware over the phone cause she had a virus. It found 57 viruses on the first run.
PUH_LEEZE......got my old computer back from my 13 yo son....ran Malwarebytes...525, smh.
everyoneiskungfufighting
Or any of my coworkers, all of whom have IT degrees.
this happens to me with my coworkers all the time. this is why i need to find someplace else to work.
tarataqa
As a 57 yr old, be nice to your mom.
zeroniss
Yeah or tarataqa will fuck her again you ungrateful shits.
http://media.tumblr.com/359793b8f9c56781766344e0245f3d0e/tumblr_inline_n5ni09Nelg1qa6lp8.gif
SmerkBich
Hey man. I'm a 45 year old mom and I Google like a mothafucka on fire
Sing it sistah!
crochetingmeteorologist
My boyfriend's mother fits that description. It causes me pain to watch her attempt to use technology.
dynamaux
Except she never finds 'it', whatever 'it' may be that she's searching for. I'll usually try to deflect by saying something 1/1
like: "Hey that Solitare game is pretty neat huh?" 2/2
ByThePowerOfSCIENCE
Nah, I've seen the equivalent of CS majors doing this. The pain is real. ᵀ.ᵀ
tisaconundrum
I've seen people do really roundabout ways to solving a problem and bothers me very much...
CS teaches you about the theory of computation, among other technical things, this knowledge should already be known!
xooberon
As a CS major from a maths/theory background who was late to learn these things, sorry :(
RomeoSniper
Took me WAY too long to figure out what CS stood for. Just kept looking and wondering what Counter Strike had to do with this.
AccountNamesSuck
You can major in Counter-Strike?! brb signing up
Yeah. I aced Assault Rifles and SMG but couldn't get past Sniping 101 ):
ShapeShifterCharlieFrancis
My mom called me to ask why her screen kept moving the other night. Turns out she taped down the scroll wheel because it was "in the way"
I'd let your mom tape down my scroll wheel any night.
She'd do it too
nation543
this is also what it's like, being a tech who is savvy with mobile devices, when people complain about the imgur app.
somecunninglinguist
i just got my first smart phone and there are like 3 imgur apps... which one is right?
none of them.
damn that was a lighting fast response time
i'm sitting here staring at my replies page while watching a movie featuring CORAL
pinkfuzzybunny
Tell us your ways. How do you get out of the mobile loop?
i use my browser instead of the app.
blakelybaby
Nope, the mobile site often put me in loops too.
what phone/tablet?
stigmawizard
I can't tell you how much internal screaming goes on in my head whilst watching my Professors try to pull something up on their computers.
ThatRussian
Oh. My. God. Watching a ppt in edit screen because they can't find "run presentation" button.
No shit, I had one professor try to share a link to us via email from her C: Drive. HER C: DRIVE.
DezTurkish
Sometimes I have savvy wizards that project slides from their iPad. Sometimes I have retarded bridge trolls.
justahumanonline
commenting for later use of descriptions
sneakers905
and leaving the cursor in the middle of the screen when playing a video. I die a little every time.
Using a smart board when they keep putting dots on where they want to click...
dickpuns
ok ok listen here bub. I hate smartboards and no matter how computer literate I am I always fuck up with that part.
Yeah, smartboards are the worst thing ever. Takes 10x as long as a whiteboard
I mean, they're nice for some things. But a smartboard that can just be second as a white board would be a nice adaption.
captainclutch
Coworker fucking googled bing in the address bar on my computer today.
DiedAndHauntingImgur
I worked tech support for 3 years, this wouldn't even phase me any longer...
One time I sent a co-worker a link to a file on Dropbox. BIG MISTAKE. "So I download this and then I can email the file to the customer?"
SirJimmothy
"Oh i typed that wrong" >left left left left left< >del del del del del<
Whydopeoplekeepcallingmethat
Dispari
Remember, you can google bing but you can't bing google. I think that tells you which is superior.
suihcta
to be fair, maybe he has an address bar that doesn't google and that automatically adds .com — safari used to do that
JonSnowNotedWindmillExpert
When is his funeral?
thrudgelmi
My coworker once asked me for the address to Google.. "Eeeh, google.com?" "No, the Norwegian version.." "Ok, so, google.no?" "Thanks."
NerdN1
I have used a default Bing bar to find google for me so I could use a GOOD search engine.
LooseCannonSpock
And then you put him out of his misery, as your duty to society.
NSPike
Yeah a coworker at my place used Yahoo to search for Google, the Googled "Facebook"...
ISeeWhatIDidThere
Google it with Bing! - http://www.collegehumor.com/video/5072264/googling-with-bing
snoogans671
Your computer!? Dude, your computer is like your underwear. Its OK for other to see it, but you DONT let them use it!
jaribo2
I have a prof that googles google in the safari search box. replaces "google" in the google search box with her search term and clicks it.
Tenure's a wonderful thing isn't it?
She's actually a great instructor, in metals, very little to do with computers. And what little there is, is delegated to upperclassmen.
Burn the computer. Then burn your coworker. It's the only way.
W I T C H C R A F T
krauraurgg
Conveniently, there's another post on the front page right now about flamethrowers.
spyderjay
IIRC google is actually one of the most commonly googled search terms... smh
Maybe they do what I do and begin typing "google maps" or something similar but auto-complete gives them what they want first.
Go to Bing and search "Yahoo" Then from their search "Google". When you get to Google search "Google.com", now do your search.
luposlipaphobia
I suppose 'their' should be 'there'? I was so confused :O
Our work computers default to bing. So I always type "Google" in bing search bar, then use that for actual searching.
BroboxylicAcid
Hnng. Unnguuuh. FFFFSSS.
icallpeopleJack
I am not familiar with this dragon shout.
DAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH!!!!
ophirwaasdorp
Well, nothing happened. Yes I'm the idiot who tried.
MenOnlySeeBasicColours
What exactly did this do? Something seems...different
TheAllHighEruIluvatar
You broke through to the dark web via the mystical ritual.
gengumby
sowetoninja
You really don't NEED chrome, if you shared as much info with other companies their search engines results would be more relevant too.
stellaluna
Mum no, mum, mum, mum just let me, MUM!! WHY ARE YOU DOING THAT!!! I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I know, yes I'm sure you can do it.
Imightbeacrazybirdlady
I'M DYING.
emupop
Every. Fucking. Time.
My parents are Unix system admins. When I was 18, they were fixing MY computer. It was weird. "Mooooom, Norton is doing stupid shit again!"
astreah
Can't say the same for my mom, I mean she IS a software engineer
WhereLBJsNutsHang
"So, how do I download the Facebook on my computer? A WEBSITE? I HAVE TO OPEN THE GOOGLE TO GET A FACEBOOK??? I WANT A BLUEBBUTTON!"
Zahaele
That being said, you CAN put website shortcuts on your desktop.
I am the old person in the Windows 8 equation. It's new, scsry, confusing and fuck it. I hate it.
BringBackURF
"Ugh technology is so confusing"
CaptainDogWaffle
"Let me do it."
OverlyCynicalImgurian
This is weird. This is a redrawing of a 4chan MS paint comic, except redrawn worse than the original.
RoswellM
CAN'T READ MY, CAN'T READ MY!!!
pandaSloppy
Am I the only one to think that this post was related to finding of your porn history?
janedrew
True story: my boss asked me the other day how long it takes email to get to somewhere far away like Minnesota.
hollowback
This was made into an animation by guyjcollins https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fa9DLxDtPtc
Chikabananas
become the top comment, go go go!
BoilerTFUp
So are rage comics a thing again?
imnotgoingtodebateyoujerry
My sister would rather right click to copy and paste than use keyboard shortcuts. I have a hard time watching her use a computer.
pancreas
it's actually way easier. Only one hand required, and the right click menu has "search google for..." and "open link in new tab" right there
TheStoatMcGoats
I got a storage bin using quotes for their search, not a gear. OP lies! https://www.boltdepot.com/Product-Details.aspx?product=7579
passwordisreallyfish
I once had a friend who googled Google.com. While on the Google homepage...
Mossanony
26-year-old coworker asked me enter in Admin creds to install a simple label template. Install warning said "ASK.com toolbar". I am 50.
MuintirChonnemaraAnseo
Apart from the, obvious, biological-component reliability issue: THIS is why we couldn't call it Windows 9.
ProfessorSexyTime
ThisPizzaManCanMakeYourWorldTasteGood
Wait why is one dead and night the other with cat face
TotalSmartAss
Sigh.. my 54 year old friend just got their first PC and they want me to drop by on Sat to teach them the internet. Friday I kill myself.
ch4nces
I'm sorry ):
HitlersWetDream
Literally me with my parents
whydoispendsomuchtimehere
I have to show my mom every day where to write a fucking website. I can't handle it. Weirdly she knows how to use the scroll button.
MollyNapQueen
Same. But my mom is 75 so I'll allow it.
allanman
"No mom click chrome, not Internet Explorer"
CyanideSweetToothSuicide
The excuse "I'm not good with computers" is not valid if you're a 17 year old college freshman in 2015.
Staddi
Sadly it is, because they never learned to use a computer. They now just know how to use crippled webpages for smartphones and tablets.
icantbelieveijoined
To be fair dragging the scroll thumb is faster than the wheel if there is a lot to scroll
SolitaSoulSaysSi
Can we all just agree to do our best to keep up with changing technology and never stop learning? K thanx.
selfinflictedimgury
http://www.theonion.com/articles/getting-mom-onto-internet-a-sisyphean-ordeal,1404
Harmonex
I don't even have to click the link to know dis gon be gud.
OriginalCommenter938
Are there really no comments?
TheStoatMcGoats
This is how it was in the days before usersub. Everything came from Reddit and it was a mad dash for top comment. Pepperidge Farm remembers!
sugar3
Is such a thing even possible?
jrmxrf
They are still typing.
EveryChickenInThisPlace
At 5 wpm
MuintirChonnemaraAnseo
Yup. Came back to say Yup when I was done.
moxymox
Poker Face is now thinking some evil thoughts about Reddit feeding imgur.
michiganiscold
"But I like doing it my way"
Erilis
"Well, I'm no computer whiz"
EatinButtsAndBustinNuts
I work for a 60 year old boss who does this shit...ALL. THE. TIME. He signs the checks :/
marcshark
The right handed guys I work for uses the mouse left handed (very unsuccessfully) because that's how he was told to and "why change now" :/
ReallyBigRocks
Pro tip: you don't need to put the search in quotes, you can, you just really don't need to
0bjectsmayappear
I've tried to tell friends this even on some basic searches but they don't believe me. I gave up.
Abecx
Maybe if you're a basic bitch computer user. Try searching for esoteric knowledge without quotes instead of Pokemon misty nudes.
EveryoneGetsAFreeCat2
pantheranorvegicus
Yea I was confused about that.. I've never had to put any quotes.. and I'm a mastergoogler
blahdeedah
If it's a very specific search you're running you certainly do. Also, use your Boolean operators.
jitspoe
Google pretty much ignores anything you type in and gives results to whatever it wants to these days. I hate it.
DoingItWrongSince1980
You sure about that?
jitspoe
I was searching for how to unscrew a part on a paintball gun, and it returned results for laser hair removal. "unscrew" != "removal", etc.
baikinmon
http://imgur.com/x1SJAip
jitspoe
Wait, when did they fix that? For a while it blatantly ignored quotation marks and I had to use verbatim mode to get useful results.
WackTheHorld
http://www.reactiongifs.com/r/jcwd.gif
magellenable
The person at the computer should be 47 years old and also the woman who gave birth to me
kerbie
My boss does this sooo painful
lotny
I wish. I've seen 20-somethings not using the scroll wheel, also not double clicking but clicking on something and pressing enter instead.
blahdeedah
Hey now....
SoOddICantEven
I recently talked my mom through installing anti-malware over the phone cause she had a virus. It found 57 viruses on the first run.
blahdeedah
PUH_LEEZE......got my old computer back from my 13 yo son....ran Malwarebytes...525, smh.
everyoneiskungfufighting
Or any of my coworkers, all of whom have IT degrees.
Erilis
this happens to me with my coworkers all the time. this is why i need to find someplace else to work.
tarataqa
As a 57 yr old, be nice to your mom.
zeroniss
Yeah or tarataqa will fuck her again you ungrateful shits.
tarataqa
http://media.tumblr.com/359793b8f9c56781766344e0245f3d0e/tumblr_inline_n5ni09Nelg1qa6lp8.gif
SmerkBich
Hey man. I'm a 45 year old mom and I Google like a mothafucka on fire
blahdeedah
Sing it sistah!
crochetingmeteorologist
My boyfriend's mother fits that description. It causes me pain to watch her attempt to use technology.
dynamaux
Except she never finds 'it', whatever 'it' may be that she's searching for. I'll usually try to deflect by saying something 1/1
dynamaux
like: "Hey that Solitare game is pretty neat huh?" 2/2
ByThePowerOfSCIENCE
Nah, I've seen the equivalent of CS majors doing this. The pain is real. ᵀ.ᵀ
tisaconundrum
I've seen people do really roundabout ways to solving a problem and bothers me very much...
EveryChickenInThisPlace
CS teaches you about the theory of computation, among other technical things, this knowledge should already be known!
xooberon
As a CS major from a maths/theory background who was late to learn these things, sorry :(
RomeoSniper
Took me WAY too long to figure out what CS stood for. Just kept looking and wondering what Counter Strike had to do with this.
AccountNamesSuck
You can major in Counter-Strike?! brb signing up
ByThePowerOfSCIENCE
Yeah. I aced Assault Rifles and SMG but couldn't get past Sniping 101 ):
ShapeShifterCharlieFrancis
My mom called me to ask why her screen kept moving the other night. Turns out she taped down the scroll wheel because it was "in the way"
tarataqa
I'd let your mom tape down my scroll wheel any night.
ShapeShifterCharlieFrancis
She'd do it too
tarataqa
nation543
this is also what it's like, being a tech who is savvy with mobile devices, when people complain about the imgur app.
somecunninglinguist
i just got my first smart phone and there are like 3 imgur apps... which one is right?
nation543
none of them.
somecunninglinguist
damn that was a lighting fast response time
nation543
i'm sitting here staring at my replies page while watching a movie featuring CORAL
pinkfuzzybunny
Tell us your ways. How do you get out of the mobile loop?
nation543
i use my browser instead of the app.
blakelybaby
Nope, the mobile site often put me in loops too.
nation543
what phone/tablet?
stigmawizard
I can't tell you how much internal screaming goes on in my head whilst watching my Professors try to pull something up on their computers.
ThatRussian
Oh. My. God. Watching a ppt in edit screen because they can't find "run presentation" button.
stigmawizard
No shit, I had one professor try to share a link to us via email from her C: Drive. HER C: DRIVE.
DezTurkish
Sometimes I have savvy wizards that project slides from their iPad. Sometimes I have retarded bridge trolls.
justahumanonline
commenting for later use of descriptions
sneakers905
and leaving the cursor in the middle of the screen when playing a video. I die a little every time.
pinkfuzzybunny
Using a smart board when they keep putting dots on where they want to click...
dickpuns
ok ok listen here bub. I hate smartboards and no matter how computer literate I am I always fuck up with that part.
pinkfuzzybunny
Yeah, smartboards are the worst thing ever. Takes 10x as long as a whiteboard
dickpuns
I mean, they're nice for some things. But a smartboard that can just be second as a white board would be a nice adaption.
captainclutch
Coworker fucking googled bing in the address bar on my computer today.
DiedAndHauntingImgur
I worked tech support for 3 years, this wouldn't even phase me any longer...
Erilis
One time I sent a co-worker a link to a file on Dropbox. BIG MISTAKE. "So I download this and then I can email the file to the customer?"
SirJimmothy
"Oh i typed that wrong" >left left left left left< >del del del del del<
Whydopeoplekeepcallingmethat
Dispari
Remember, you can google bing but you can't bing google. I think that tells you which is superior.
suihcta
to be fair, maybe he has an address bar that doesn't google and that automatically adds .com — safari used to do that
JonSnowNotedWindmillExpert
When is his funeral?
thrudgelmi
My coworker once asked me for the address to Google.. "Eeeh, google.com?" "No, the Norwegian version.." "Ok, so, google.no?" "Thanks."
NerdN1
I have used a default Bing bar to find google for me so I could use a GOOD search engine.
LooseCannonSpock
And then you put him out of his misery, as your duty to society.
NSPike
Yeah a coworker at my place used Yahoo to search for Google, the Googled "Facebook"...
ISeeWhatIDidThere
Google it with Bing! - http://www.collegehumor.com/video/5072264/googling-with-bing
snoogans671
Your computer!? Dude, your computer is like your underwear. Its OK for other to see it, but you DONT let them use it!
jaribo2
I have a prof that googles google in the safari search box. replaces "google" in the google search box with her search term and clicks it.
Erilis
captainclutch
Tenure's a wonderful thing isn't it?
jaribo2
She's actually a great instructor, in metals, very little to do with computers. And what little there is, is delegated to upperclassmen.
stigmawizard
Burn the computer. Then burn your coworker. It's the only way.
tarataqa
W I T C H C R A F T
krauraurgg
Conveniently, there's another post on the front page right now about flamethrowers.
spyderjay
IIRC google is actually one of the most commonly googled search terms... smh
Harmonex
Maybe they do what I do and begin typing "google maps" or something similar but auto-complete gives them what they want first.
TheStoatMcGoats
Go to Bing and search "Yahoo" Then from their search "Google". When you get to Google search "Google.com", now do your search.
luposlipaphobia
I suppose 'their' should be 'there'? I was so confused :O
ThatRussian
Our work computers default to bing. So I always type "Google" in bing search bar, then use that for actual searching.
BroboxylicAcid
Hnng. Unnguuuh. FFFFSSS.
icallpeopleJack
I am not familiar with this dragon shout.
Erilis
DAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH!!!!
ophirwaasdorp
Well, nothing happened. Yes I'm the idiot who tried.
MenOnlySeeBasicColours
What exactly did this do? Something seems...different
TheAllHighEruIluvatar
You broke through to the dark web via the mystical ritual.
gengumby
sowetoninja
You really don't NEED chrome, if you shared as much info with other companies their search engines results would be more relevant too.
stellaluna
Mum no, mum, mum, mum just let me, MUM!! WHY ARE YOU DOING THAT!!! I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I know, yes I'm sure you can do it.
Imightbeacrazybirdlady
I'M DYING.
emupop
Every. Fucking. Time.
ThatRussian
My parents are Unix system admins. When I was 18, they were fixing MY computer. It was weird. "Mooooom, Norton is doing stupid shit again!"
astreah
Can't say the same for my mom, I mean she IS a software engineer
WhereLBJsNutsHang
"So, how do I download the Facebook on my computer? A WEBSITE? I HAVE TO OPEN THE GOOGLE TO GET A FACEBOOK??? I WANT A BLUEBBUTTON!"
Zahaele
That being said, you CAN put website shortcuts on your desktop.
WhereLBJsNutsHang
I am the old person in the Windows 8 equation. It's new, scsry, confusing and fuck it. I hate it.