Parents with computers

From Reddit:

• My dad’s favorite browser is Mazda Foxfire
• My step-dad calls it Godzilla Firebox.
• Nice! My mom is a big fan of Wind Amp.
• My mom asked to be my friend on MyFace.
• My Mom genuinely calls the computer the “Googlebox”, she (I think) has no idea what Google is but has heard it associated with computers on the radio. If you ask her what a computer is for she will list 3 things “twittering”, “blogging” and “hotmailing”.  “Twittering” and blogging are, according to her, pretty much the same thing “words on the internet” while “hotmailing” (obviously) means emailing, which is only used to say “Turn on your phone I’m trying to call you”.
• The Google is a group of geese right?
• friday my boss tryed to enlarge the picture on my screen the same way he does on his Iphone.
• It’s 10:30 pm. Phone rings. My dad. “Question: how do you copy a file?”
• My Dad accidentally turned off my brother’s computer by flicking the power strip off while vacuuming – he calls me in a panic thinking he just deleted my brother’s entire computer, he was afraid to turn it back on – I had to spend 5 minutes telling him that everything was okay, it was cute.
• Grandpa: “Well, it kept saying something about a firewall so I looked behind the desk but how do I tell if the wall is a firewall?”
• My mother once called me into the computer room to help her. She was trying to google the name of an author she wanted to look up. Somehow she had navigated to google, then googled the word “google” and was confused because she couldn’t find google.
• This does not involve a computer, but is related. A few years ago my mom called me and told me the fax machine wasn´t working because it kept “returning” her the letter she was trying to send.

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