Posts Tagged ‘Humor’

Why the internet will fail (from 1995)

Thanks go to Three Word Chant!

The Inter­net? Bah!

Hype alert: Why cybers­pace isn’t, and will never be, nirvana

By Clif­ford Stoll | NEWSWEEK

From the maga­zine issue dated Feb 27, 1995

After two deca­des online, I’m per­ple­xed. It’s not that I haven’t had a gas of a good time on the Inter­net. I’ve met great peo­ple and even caught a hac­ker or two. But today, I’m uneasy about this most trendy and over­sold com­mu­nity. Visio­na­ries see a future of tele­com­mu­ting wor­kers, inte­rac­tive libra­ries and mul­ti­me­dia class­rooms. They speak of elec­tro­nic town mee­tings and vir­tual com­mu­ni­ties. Com­merce and busi­ness will shift from offi­ces and malls to net­works and modems. And the free­dom of digi­tal net­works will make govern­ment more democratic.

Balo­ney. Do our com­pu­ter pun­dits lack all com­mon sense? The truth in no online data­base will replace your daily news­pa­per, no CD-ROM can take the place of a com­pe­tent teacher and no com­pu­ter net­work will change the way govern­ment works.

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Is your power supply compatible with NOSMOKE?

After experiencing difficulties with his computer, a poor, incognizant user called the system maker's technical support line for assistance...

OS Airlines

• DOS Airlines

Everybody pushes the airplane until it glides, then jumps on and lets the plane coast until it hits the ground again, then push again, jump on again and so on.

13 Things Every Net User Should Know

1. Bill Gates is not giving you $1000, and Disney is not giving you a free vacation, no one is giving away cases of free M & M's, the GAP is not giving away clothing.

There is no baby food company issuing class-action checks. MTV will not give you backstage passes if you forward something to the most people. You can relax; there is no need to pass it on "just in case it's true." Furthermore, just because someone said in the message, four generations back, that "we checked it out and it's legit," does not actually make it true.

Humor — Daddy, How Was I Born?

A little boy goes to his father and asks 'Daddy, how was I born?' The father answers, 'Well, son, I guess one day you will need to find out anyway! Your Mom and I first got together in a chat room on Yahoo. Then I set up a date via e-mail with your Mom and we met at a cyber-cafe. We sneaked into a secluded room, and googled each other. There your mother agreed to a download from my hard drive. As soon as I was ready to upload, we discovered that neither one of us had used a firewall, and since it was too late to hit the delete button, nine months later a little Pop-Up appeared that said:

Is a Computer Male or Female

A language instructor was explaining to her class that French nouns, unlike their English counterparts, are grammatically designated as masculine or feminine. Things like 'chalk' or 'pencil,' she described, would have a gender association although in English these words were neutral.

Geek v 1 upgrades to Geek v 2

Animator vs Animation

I know this has been around for a very long time and most of you have probably seen it.  This was originally made in 2006 by Alan Becker with way to much time on his hands.  Sit back and enjoy.

The 15 Biggest Screw-ups in Internet History

Check out these 15 Internet screw-ups that will live in infamy.

Is Windows a Virus?

I have seen this posted a few times around the web, but still find it very humorous.  Keep in mind I do like Windows.

Top 20 Things Programmers Say When Their Programs Don’t Work

20. That's weird....

Running List of Hollywood Computer Myths

Over the past few years I have seen a few of these Hollywood Computer myth lists.  I figured that why not try and collate as many as I can find and post them.  If you know of anymore, let me know and I will be more then happy to add it.