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!
Ah, but did you ever use the term “Hit the carriage return” in a computer training course ... And get asked where that button was?
Old 1960 Main Frame Programming.
Flush the Buffers
Crank up the volume and break the knob off!
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.