My daily reminder that too many people, even in 2023, don’t understand what a file extension is.
It doesn’t help that Microsoft, in its great wisdom, decided to hide them.
They made it worse even. I had to deal with a friend’s Windows 11 computer the other day and it looks like even if you enable showing file extensions, it will still hide them if you go to rename the file (you know, the reason you’d usually want to enable it for). There’s probably still a way to make them show all the time but this was over a voice call so I didn’t want to mess around with it too much. Absolutely unusable.
I think it’s actually gotten worse among Millenials and Gen Z. I teach chemistry at a college, and half of my students don’t understand how folders work, let alone a file extension.
A few years ago, I had to tell someone to convert some pictures since they took them in .heic and being able to see them wasn’t standard. Their response was to manually change the file extension on each of hundreds of files from .heic to .jpeg.
FAN WHIRS VIOLENTY
Command prompt opens and shuts
Horror story of the early internet
My favorite limewire nostalgic memory is downloading a song, opening it up in WinAmp and hearing Bill Clinton say
My fellow americans I would once again like to say that I did not have sexual relations with that woman. I did however go to www.ifreeclub.com, where they offer hundreds of free products. Apple iphones and ipods, dell and apple computers and notebooks, samsung and sony plasma tvs, sony playstation 3s and nintendo wiis, canon and icon digital cameras–unintelligible– gucci handbags and watches, bestbuy expedia giftcards, and much more. Visit them today at www.ifreeclub.com thats w-w-w-dot-i-f-r-e-e-c-l-u-b-dot-c-o-m., and do like i did, just get it free!
Limewire and they had ads for nintendo wii? Dang by that point I think I was on kazaa or bearshare
I’ve become so numb, Antivir ain’t there
Covered in toolbars, For lack of Adaware
I’m becoming this, all I want to do
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I remember in the early 2000s helping a few family members with their slow computers. I’m a self taught computer geek because I couldn’t afford to pay someone to do this stuff for me. I’m not the best but I do know how to fix a system.
Every Christmas I went to visit my inlaws family and every year I would end up fixing two or three systems for people … all of them were always compromised by the 12 year son with a limewire addiction.
It was always funny to open up taskmanager in Windows and after waiting for five minutes for the panel to appear because the system was semi frozen … you’d end up with 200 tasks running, the CPU at 100% and the unit fan whirling like crazy and warming your feet under the desk.
You were just like me with someone disappointed in you
Is this some Windows thing I’m too Macintosh to understand?
No, “don’t execute a file that shouldn’t be an executable” is not a “Windows thing”.
I used to download those exes to my G4 and open them with Resedit to try to figure out how they worked and extract some strings.
There weren’t enough Mac users to make it worth making executables like that.
Oh, I’ve wirtten the odd prank virus for Mac in my time. Never spread them through the internet of course, but Mac users felt so secure they’d execute about anything and be terrified when the CD drive started acting up
Remember the “virus” that put Oscar the Grouch in the trash can? I loved that one.
Only time I actually got a virus on my Mac was from a MacAddict CD.
I once did one where the screen would “crack” whenever you clicked. Like one of those desktop destroyer Minigames that were popular back then. It basically displayed an empty window in the foreground that would then load the cheap-ass crack-lines I had done in MS Paint. It was really obvious, since the program would even appear in the app shelf thingy of MacOS, yet ppl just freaked out every gawd damn time.
Ironically, yes.
