This is how “normal” users think about the Internet, Email and Computers. Funny but sometimes true.
- Internet Explorer is more commonly known as “the Internet”; when you say “open the Internet”, you mean opening IE. You have no idea what a “browser” is, or that there are alternatives to IE.
- Even search engines aren’t excluded from the above; to go to Yahoo, you search for “yahoo” in MSN Search or Google (whichever you use as your start page).
- Email messages should be kept forever, and in the Inbox. Even ads for penis enlargement pills (you never know when they might be useful, after all). When, after a while, your mailbox “breaks”, you simply get yourself another one, and tell everyone that you’ve changed email addresses.
- There are, exactly, two games in the world: Solitaire and Minesweeper. You’d never, ever think of searching for, much less download, another one.
- Computers get slower and slower with time; this is perfectly normal, and the only thing to do is to go to the store, and get them to format and reinstall everything (which isn’t a problem, because other than Windows, Office, all those cool toolbars and that nice purple ape buddy, there isn’t anything installed).
- There’s no such thing as a “word processor”, or a “spreadsheet”. There is Word, and Excel, respectively. It’s inconceivable that there could ever be a computer without them. Link.