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|| T.Y.M.E. - Twisted Young Minds Expand || #23 by v<>r<EFBFBD>s || 10/24/94 ||
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Computer Illiteracy
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I swear, you give someone any peice of technological equipment, and they
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can have it up and running in all of thirty seconds. That is, anything but
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a computer. Give someone a top of line system, with high quality software,
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and an instruction manual with a customer service number, and the average
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computer illiterate person will flip open the manual after ten minutes and
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dial the service line demanding help.
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Really pitiful. Actually, it makes me want to scream. I tried teaching
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someone the basics of DOS, like the 'dir' command, and he played twenty
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questions with me on it's function.
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'What does it do?'
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'What does this mean?'
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'Well, what if i want to do (blah thing)?'
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'What are all those little numbers?'
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'Why do you want to use this?'
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'Why don't you use Windows instead?'
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WINDOWS?? AUUGHHHH!!! Of course, this is the only software any computer
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illiterate person can use. Little wussy point-and-click. Hell, I go for
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our friend DOS. I only learned to use DOS because I thought that it would
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annoy people who didn't know how to use it. Hehe.. And it did. So whenever
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somebody came over to fuck around on my computer, anyone who was computer
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illiterate would ask the same question everytime.
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'Do you have Windows?'
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(enter fiction)
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'FUCK NO. WINDOWS SUCKS! You will never catch me running that piece od
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lousy shit!
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(exit fiction)
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(enter reality)
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'No...' i would mumble, flip on the system, and load up whatever game they
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want to play. I'm not that rude to people, but you have got to see some of
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the scenarios that run through my mind at times. Anything ranging from
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killing the person to deleting my harddisk, and also jumping out the window
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running down the street and screaming 'BARNEY IS THE DEVIL' while being
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completely naked. Don't ask.
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Another part of computer illiteracy would have to be the modem...
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If someone has an account on an online service, they have an account. If
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a computer illiterate person has an account on an online service, they
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'have' the service. I.E. :
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Person> I have an ID on Prodigy(tm).
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Illiterate> Oh! I have Prodigy too!
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or..
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Person> I have an account on Exodus BBS.
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Illiterate> I have Exodus! I have Exodus!
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Augh.. hearing things like that from stupid people is irritating as hell. I
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was helping Teq (the bitch)'s mom set up her new modem. Turns out the stupid
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broad was trying to get the damn thing set up with a PRINTER cable instead
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of a modem cable. Arghargharghargh... the world today..
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Also, like the illiterates (i'm gonna call them CI's from now on so i
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dont have to type as much) say,
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'When is that information superhighway going to come out?'
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Okay, CI's, a little knowledge lesson for you.
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1) It been going for years.
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2) It doesn't COME OUT, it goes UP.
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3) If you don't know simple things like that, you don't deserve to be
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part of the technological revolution. Ha.
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How annoying. I guess it must piss off other people, too, but probably me
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out of everyone else... and the thing is, when true modemers and internet
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types meet these people and shun them for being so stupid, the CI's have no
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idea what they did wrong! If you know of an idiot that corresponds to what
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I have been describing, pass this little text along. Tell them how they're
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fucking up, and get them to change. At least it will be one less CI to worry
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about...
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'The only thing a CI is good for is
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making money off their stupidity.'
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v<>r<EFBFBD>s
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|| Look for T.Y.M.E. on any of the follwing boards: (and get them all! =] ||
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|| Under The Influence...........(ALM)OST-HERE.............World HQ....... ||
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|| Narkotik Illusions............(303)PRI-VATE.............Midwestern HQ.. ||
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|| Exodus BBS....................(707)935-6867.............Distro Site.... ||
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|| Electric Rush (NuP)...........(707)257-7208.............Distro Site.... ||
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|| Leave comments, death threats, ideas to vYrus/napavalley@nova.fred.org ||
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|| 'Life is an Illusion, Death is Reality' ||
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