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To: harpygoddess

Radio Buttons on a computer page...

I had a funny story about that. Back around 2000, there were still a lot of people unfamiliar with using personal computers (as hard as that is to believe) and I was giving a class on an application we were introducing.

I was describing all the different elements in the user interface, such as pull-down menus, scroll bars, etc.

When I came to radio buttons, I said “They are like the buttons on a car radio, so you can select only one of them...when you push one in to select it, the one previously selected pops out to deselect it...” and I noticed one young woman was looking vapidly at me with her mouth open, and I realized...she had absolutely no idea what real radio buttons were on a car radio!

I stopped in mid-sentence, then picked up again, but I felt a LOT older.

When I relayed this realization to an older woman who was that young woman’s co-worker, she said snarkily (but good naturedly) “The only part of the inside of a car she knows well is the back seat...”

Everyone liked that young woman, because she was so good-natured, so it wasn’t said with any poison, but it sure did make me laugh!


51 posted on 05/05/2016 6:29:53 AM PDT by rlmorel ("Irrational violence against muslims" is a myth, but "Irrational violence against non-muslims" isn't)
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To: rlmorel

Ah, but did you ever use the term “Hit the carriage return” in a computer training course ... And get asked where that button was?


54 posted on 05/05/2016 6:35:01 AM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: rlmorel

Old 1960 Main Frame Programming.

Flush the Buffers


72 posted on 05/05/2016 7:02:24 AM PDT by topspinr
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To: rlmorel

Crank up the volume and break the knob off!


78 posted on 05/05/2016 7:25:33 AM PDT by texas_mrs
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To: rlmorel

I took a basic computer class about the same time. The first thing the instructor asked the class was if we had all had a keyboarding class in high school. Another lady and I raised our hands and asked him if typing class counted. The look on his face was priceless.


135 posted on 05/05/2016 12:19:09 PM PDT by Tammy8
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