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I would be interested in knowing who else, and why??!!!

Me I did it. One night I wokeup and turned on my super hi moduelity anode device and sent subliminal messages through all computers to my hoards of zombies to use the wrong terminology. I did it because I was bored, much as I am now and because I could.

"While it's true that the average user knows nothing about these other services and thinks that web pages ARE the internet, this just is not true."

Heck you answered your on question.

Now having made a total ass of myself, the reason for the disparity in the language is because most people just do not care like you or I. How many times have you and I run into people that think they have to be online to use their computer at all? While I have seen a marked increase in the number of knowledgeable (well maybe more informed) sales people, they are faced with a populace that must be sold in the simplest terms possible. Those people go home ignorant and seem to stay that way. "Waddayamean I have to purchase more antivirus software? This computer is only 31/2 months old." He says to me as I am cleaning out a nasty critter.

I had a friend call me that he had lost his pictures that he had just downloaded into his brand new peecee. When I asked where he had downloaded them his answer was, "Well, I put them into Kodak and now I cannot find them." Imagine if you in your worst nightmare the replies when I asked what folder. "Folder?1?1 What do you mean folder?" I hung up the phone and drove thirty minutes to help.

And you wonder why people don't know the difference. Don't get miffed at me just having some fun cause I know your exasperation.

Just remember that rednecks are not the only people that can screw up computer terms.

A list of redneck computer terms
Backup - What you do when you sight a skunk in the woods.

Bar code - Them's the fight'n rules down da local tavern.

Bug - The reason you is a giv'n for calling in sick.

Byte - What yer pit bull dun to cusin Jethro.

Cache - Needed when you go to da store.

Chip - Yer cusin's uncle's mother's boyfriend's name.

Terminal - Time to call da undertaker.

Crash - When you go to Junior's party uninvited.

Digital - The art of counting on your fingers.

Diskette - A female Disco dancer.

Hacker - Uncle Leroy after thirty years of smoking.

Hardcopy - Picture looked at when selecting tattoos.

Internet - Where cafeteria workers put their hair.

Keyboard - Where you hang the keys to the John Deere.

Mac - Big Bob's favorite fast food.

Megahertz - How your head feels after seventeen beers.

Modem - What ya did when the grass and weeds got too tall.

Mouse pad - Where Mickey and Minnie live.

Network - Scoop'n up a big fish before it breaks the line.

Online - Where to stay when taking the sobriety test.

Rom - Where the pope lives.

Screen - Helps keep the skeeters off the porch.

Serial port - A red wine you drink with breakfast.

Superconductor - Amtrak's Employee of the year.

Scsi - What you call your week-old underwear.

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