I was in the hospital in 2015 and was talking to the person next to me. He realised I was in IT and as he turned his laptop to me he’s like I can’t seem to view websites anymore with toolbars up the wazoo. It was already a throwback even at that time
In ~2005 I was at a job that provided tech support to local hospitals. That’s the first time I saw this image and … It didn’t strike me as too unrealistic.
At that job I once spent seventeen minutes on the phone trying to help a nurse find the semicolon on her keyboard.
Times didn’t change! Anyone that provided any large scale tech support to the actual average person understands that tech is indistinguishable from magic to them
A lot of people installed this shit. Because they’re visiting fuckmybeaniebabies.net and a popup is like “Install our spam bar for a chance to win herpes!” And they happily click ok.
A lot of people still do that, but it’s “Do you want your phone/computer to constantly nag you with browser notifications about our spam?” and they click “Yes!”
I’d always have to do this crap to our old Sony VAIO desktop (that was mine, until I went to college and my mom took it over). Then my mom would get mad that I “messed up the computer” because I’d delete this crap and apparently she used it?
How’d you get a screenshot of my mom’s desktop as I found it when I’d be home from college, cir. 2003?
Oh look, my grandparents PC circa 2005
I was in the hospital in 2015 and was talking to the person next to me. He realised I was in IT and as he turned his laptop to me he’s like I can’t seem to view websites anymore with toolbars up the wazoo. It was already a throwback even at that time
Edit: wording
My old motherboard’s driver disc from 2015 would install Google toolbar if you weren’t careful
Aaah the good old “next next next install” you open the browser some time later with a surprise toolbar
In ~2005 I was at a job that provided tech support to local hospitals. That’s the first time I saw this image and … It didn’t strike me as too unrealistic.
At that job I once spent seventeen minutes on the phone trying to help a nurse find the semicolon on her keyboard.
Times didn’t change! Anyone that provided any large scale tech support to the actual average person understands that tech is indistinguishable from magic to them
Banzai Buddy!
My neighbor intentionally installed that shit on his family PC when we were like 15.
A lot of people installed this shit. Because they’re visiting fuckmybeaniebabies.net and a popup is like “Install our spam bar for a chance to win herpes!” And they happily click ok.
A lot of people still do that, but it’s “Do you want your phone/computer to constantly nag you with browser notifications about our spam?” and they click “Yes!”
I intentionally installed it on other people’s PCs…
See you in hell
I’ve seen this toolbar hell before. I’ve had to clean many a pc of this toolbar hell before.
I’d always have to do this crap to our old Sony VAIO desktop (that was mine, until I went to college and my mom took it over). Then my mom would get mad that I “messed up the computer” because I’d delete this crap and apparently she used it?
Oh neat. Chance to win a free lobster dinner. Gonna click it.
You can take a sexy single there
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCGD92DDsvc