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"A large collection of stories and anecdotes about clueless computer users. It's a baffling phenomenon that in today's society an individual, who might in other circumstances be considered smart and wise, can sit down in front of a computer screen and instantly lose every last shred of common sense he ever possessed." Example: "While working at the university computer lab one evening, a student came over to ask me why her computer was running so slowly. She said that she was just surfing the Internet. I went over and examined her screen and noticed that she had approximately 230 separate browser windows open in Internet Explorer. She thought that she could only use each one once." It's kind of like driving by a bad accident: you're horrified by what you see, but you can't help but to keep looking. From This is True for 4 March 2007 Suggestions for further reading:
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