• kernelle@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 day ago

    I was in the hospital in 2015 and was talking to the person next to me. He realised I was in IT and as he turned his laptop to me he’s like I can’t seem to view websites anymore with toolbars up the wazoo. It was already a throwback even at that time

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      23 hours ago

      My old motherboard’s driver disc from 2015 would install Google toolbar if you weren’t careful

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        18 hours ago

        Aaah the good old “next next next install” you open the browser some time later with a surprise toolbar

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      22 hours ago

      In ~2005 I was at a job that provided tech support to local hospitals. That’s the first time I saw this image and … It didn’t strike me as too unrealistic.

      At that job I once spent seventeen minutes on the phone trying to help a nurse find the semicolon on her keyboard.

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        18 hours ago

        Times didn’t change! Anyone that provided any large scale tech support to the actual average person understands that tech is indistinguishable from magic to them