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Nope. I too have seen users freak out about illegal operations.

• Izkata 5y ago
  I was that user as a kid.
• SilasX 5y ago
  And cookies: >>Almost every time, however, something unexpected would occur, causing her to panic and call her daughter for help. >>"It could be almost anything," Widmar said. "She goes apeshit whenever a pop-up window comes up. And one time, she paged me because she got a message about accepting cookies. She was all freaked out because now she thought she was being charged for actual cookies." https://www.theonion.com/getting-mom-onto-internet-a-sisyphean-ordeal-1819566480 https://www.theonion.com/getting-mom-onto-internet-a-sisyphe... Yes, a satire article, but representative of how people reacted to such cryptic browser messages.
  • foldr 5y ago
    >"For practice, I logged onto Yahoo! and had her search for cheesecake recipes," Widmar said. "She got totally confused by the fact that we were searching within a web site for other web sites. She kept typing her keyword searches into the Internet Explorer address bar, not into the Yahoo! search bar. Then, when she accidentally typed 'cheesecake' into the Explorer box, it actually worked, because there happened to be a web site called that, so that just confused her even more." This part was pretty prophetic for 2002.
• amatecha 5y ago
  When I was a young kid, my family visited another family for a party at their house. I was trying to play SimCity or something on their computer, and the family's son, a bit younger than me, was there with me. Some error was coming up and I was trying to make it retry, but the computer kept beeping. The son was like "you're hurting it!" and got really upset that I was making the computer beep. I mean, I was a bit older and had a real laugh, but he was genuinely concerned for the well-being of the computer! IIRC he even ran to his parents because I was "hurting" the computer hahah