I once had a support call where I told the customer to click the Start button and they didn't know what it was. I clarified by saying that it was the button in the corner of the screen. They did it and then said that their entire screen turned black.

Apparently they'd pushed the power button on their monitor.

[–] drcobaltjedi@programming.dev 8 points 7 hours ago

To the guy a few weeks ago that said I wasn't being fair to users not reading error messages and comparing it to a doctor reading your charts. Read this fucking thread.

[–] 1984@lemmy.today 11 points 8 hours ago (3 children)

When I was young, older people thought the monitor was the computer and had no idea there was a chassi under the desk connected to it. :)

[–] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 5 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Enter the imac.

[–] Cort@lemmy.world 6 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Have you ever seen the original Mac?

[–] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 3 points 5 hours ago

Yes, but was never a mac dude.

[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 4 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

When I was young people thought the keyboard was the computer. And they were right.

[–] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Vic20?

[–] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 2 points 4 hours ago

Or commodore 64. Amiga 500. Schneider 6128. ZX spectrum. Just to name a few from my time.

[–] raman_klogius@ani.social 1 points 6 hours ago

Reminds me of that story where a company secretary thought the towers are just junk and asked the whole lot thrown out the entire office