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And cookies: >>Almost every time, however, something unexpected would occur, causing her to panic and call her daughter for help. >>"It could be almost anythi
by 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.