Your parents + tech = Comedy gold

[geK0]

My mother was on the phone with her fried who just got her first computer

"How do you find things on the internet?"
"You click on the blue E"
"okay... now what?"
"now you go to the google"
"what?"
"look for the google bar, and type google into it"
"whats a googlie bar?"
"its the thing that takes you to the google"
"what does it look like"
"it has a G with colours around it"
"I dont see it"
"It's above the Vee Grabber bar"
"I dont see that one either"
"okay, try typing the google into the big bar"

This went on for quite a while, I was laughing my ass off the entire time!

 

[Jolly Co-operator]

My dad thinks that people can steal our credit card information if we have our wi-fi unprotected (not sure how he thinks someone would go about doing that), so he's very paranoid about the password. Explaining to him why this is ridiculous hasn't worked yet, so far.

 

[BrassButtons]

My parents are both pretty good with computers, so I don't have many funny stories of them.

My coworkers, on the other hand...wow. You'd think people who use computers all day would understand the basics, but they really don't. I know of multiple cases where people printed out Word documents and then scanned the printed pages back into the computer so that they could attach the PDF to an email. One coworker can't understand the concept of "tabs", or that opening every email as a separate tab and then never closing any tabs ever will slow your computer down. Hell, today I used f5 to refresh a webpage and my coworker reacted as if I had performed a feat worthy of Merlin.

 

[Owyn_Merrilin]

My dad thinks that people can steal our credit card information if we have our wi-fi unprotected (not sure how he thinks someone would go about doing that), so he's very paranoid about the password. Explaining to him why this is ridiculous hasn't worked yet, so far.

Not to feed into your dad's paranoia, but they actually can, assuming certain conditions are met. Basically, whoever is doing the sniffing has to be watching your network traffic at the same time someone on your end is sending their credit card information over an unsecured connection. The odds of anyone bothering to do this are slim to none, especially on your home network, but it's theoretically possible. It's mostly something that's done on public networks just to prove that it can be done.

 

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

Oh my god, how relevant can a thread be?

My Mom and Dad spent an hour yesterday at an iphone class to learn how to text, create contacts and use the iPhone.

Today my Mom kept coming to me to help her with her texting. It takes her about 7 minutes to send a text and she kept asking for my help. My Mom doesn't tech. -.-

 

[Sir Boss]

see, My father has a local UNIX shell installed on his PC, can code in Fortran, and has a lot of Android devices, so, I go to him if ever I'm in trouble (I'm a computing major, by the way.)

My mother on the other hand, let's just say I had to help her install Chrome extensions... and other such things.

 

[renegade7]

At a social gathering, me and a few friends and my mom and some of her friends, my mom was trying to talk about internet culture. In a rather hilarious mess up, she told me after some random discussion with my friend:

"Pics or didn't happen!"

Since my friend's parents are rather conservative, I feel the need to point out that this is a sex joke and she should probably apologize. I get this response:

"No it isnt', I've been reading memes for like 6 months and it's never used for sex jokes."

Not too bad right? She pronounced 'memes' as 'mee-mees'. In front of my friends. It was embarrassing.

Also, my dad paid $30 for WinRAR.

 

[Canadamus Prime]

I still can't get over the time my Dad called on me because the game I'd bought for him (for the PC) was asking him to put in the CD.

 

[Suijen]

My brother snapped a really bad mugshot of my dad's face and then placed it as my dad's wallpaper. When my dad turned on the laptop, my older brother said laughing "Hey Dad, why is your stupid ugly face on your desktop?!"

My dad tried in frustration to take it off. "HEY BOY! Take it off! Damn...UGLY".

Maybe you had to be there.

 

[FalloutJack]

-Snip-

I'm sorry, but comedy is such a subjective thing. To me, this is a recipe for headaches.

 

[Evil Smurf]

my dad is fine with computers and tech, my mum......took a course in Microsoft word and power point.

Also, the wii is called the Wii box

 

[Starik20X6]

My Mum isn't the greatest with a computer, but she's constantly improving. My Dad on the other hand... He gets furious when the computer doesn't immediately do exactly what he wants it to do. And it only gets worse when you try to help. My Dad tries to use my computer and everyone walks away angry.

 

[Kopikatsu]

I mentioned it before in a few similar threads, but one of my best memories with my Dad was getting him to play Borderlands a few years back.
We got about 15 minutes in, I had already gone ahead and killed all the enemies, while my dearest father was still stuck at the start of the game, only using one analogue stick, slamming his face against a wall and strafing up against it.
His reply when I pointed it out?
"This is shite"
And then he ragequitted.

It's strange. I've tried to have my Uncle and a friend of mine (Who is both a renowned Surgeon and Captain in the US Navy) learn how to play video games, but the concept of using the two analog sticks in conjunction completely confounds them and I can't imagine why.

 

[Thetwistedendgame]

Not quite in the category, but our history teacher always searches "you tube" on google.

 

[hazabaza1]

I mentioned it before in a few similar threads, but one of my best memories with my Dad was getting him to play Borderlands a few years back.
We got about 15 minutes in, I had already gone ahead and killed all the enemies, while my dearest father was still stuck at the start of the game, only using one analogue stick, slamming his face against a wall and strafing up against it.
His reply when I pointed it out?
"This is shite"
And then he ragequitted.

It's strange. I've tried to have my Uncle and a friend of mine (Who is both a renowned Surgeon and Captain in the US Navy) learn how to play video games, but the concept of using the two analog sticks in conjunction completely confounds them and I can't imagine why.

Yeah, it's weird.
Hell, it's not like my dad is particularly bad at games. He played some PC shooters and a fair amount of Goldeneye, but once that other analog stick comes along... nothing.

 

[Jolly Co-operator]

My dad thinks that people can steal our credit card information if we have our wi-fi unprotected (not sure how he thinks someone would go about doing that), so he's very paranoid about the password. Explaining to him why this is ridiculous hasn't worked yet, so far.

Not to feed into your dad's paranoia, but they actually can, assuming certain conditions are met. Basically, whoever is doing the sniffing has to be watching your network traffic at the same time someone on your end is sending their credit card information over an unsecured connection. The odds of anyone bothering to do this are slim to none, especially on your home network, but it's theoretically possible. It's mostly something that's done on public networks just to prove that it can be done.

That's actually pretty interesting. Thanks for the information. Of course, I'm going to avoid showing my dad this post. I'd rather not have DNA locks installed on the modem ;P