Being a web designer and often hanging out with mostly tech savvy people, I think we sometimes forget that not everybody cares or knows as much about websites as we do. This video is a great example of how little people know about web browsers and is a wake up call for many of us who want users to switch from IE6 to something better. ( Link )
This makes me cry.
Anyways, reminds me of some of the stories on this site. Also, another thing that kind of bugs me is that nobody can seem to understand the address bar - they instead go ahead and load a search engine, type in the URL, search for it, then click on the website from there.
A thing that bugs me is when users search Yahoo! for "google" or search Google for "yahoo". I think browsers also added search into their address bars because so many users would type in search queries into them. Then there's my parents and other old people who don't understand tabbed browsing and open entire new browser windows for each new web page. Lol, as long as their happy I guess.
Yeah, computers and the Internet are strange and magical things. It's definitely not worth the effort to try to learn how to use them properly.</sarcasm>
"Ten movies streaming across that, that Internet, and what happens to your own personal Internet? I just the other day got...an Internet was sent by my staff at 10 o'clock in the morning on Friday. I got it yesterday [Tuesday]. Why? Because it got tangled up with all these things going on the Internet commercially."
Sadly, many of those responsible for making laws concerning the computers and the Internet have no idea what they're talking about either. I guess we should be glad that the W3C (and some other groups) are responsible for creating the standards and not Congress.
Also, thanks for fixing my broken HTML. Somehow I forgot the closing " on the href attribute.
Isn't it amazing how little politicians know about the laws their proposing and voting on. Just like that video I had posted earlier about the NY congress woman proposing legislation to ban certain types of guns she knew nothing about, the "series of tubes" congressman knew nothing about how the internet(s) works.
If you start to think about it one has to wonder how many of the congressmen know what they're even voting on and ultimately just resort to voting on party lines.
