…observed from my experience working among the internet-inexperienced…
- You’re not afraid to type a URL in the address bar of a web browser.
- You know what “URL,” “address bar,” and “web browser,” mean.
- You’ve used a browser that doesn’t have “Explorer,” “MSN,” or “AOL” in its name.
- You know how to copy and paste a URL (From the page you’re on or from a link on a page) into an email.
- You know that “http://” goes at the start of every URL.
- You know how to clear your browser cache without looking up instructions on the internet, and you understand which situations a clear-the-cache can fix.
- You know how to (and you do) add commonly-used links to your browser link bar (you get half points if you use your browser’s “favorites” in horizontal sidebar).
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Been doing a bit of the old tech support lately, have we?
you know that if you type pretty much any search term into the URL bar of Firefox it will google it for you. And if you add “wiki” at the end it will take you to the blessed holy wiki page.
@Ryan:
Tell you the truth, I haven’t. Not that tech support is bad … I’ve been doing some version of it for more than ten of my years on this planet.
This post was one of those “slow-burn” projects, where I collect examples on a certain theme over a few months, and turn those into a blog post…