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I am everything you hate about people on the internet. I am here to help.

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Blacklight · 12/02/2015 21:26

I am male, mid 20's and grew up with this technology.
Wondering what something means?
Wondering how to do something?
Wondering how your kids did something?
Wondering if you should let your kids do something?

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EmpressOfJurisfiction · 12/02/2015 22:56

Html from scratch? Too right. There are some things a WYSIWYG just can't do.

MrsDeVere · 12/02/2015 22:57

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Hoppinggreen · 12/02/2015 22:57

I was struggling with these computer thingies but then I painted mine pink and now I can understand it just fine.
Appreciate the offer though OP

TwatFaceBitch · 12/02/2015 22:58

Sure it's got nothing to do with the OPs wording?Grin

EatShitDerek · 12/02/2015 22:58

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EBearhug · 12/02/2015 23:00

my colleague deleted everything from a production AIX box. How we laughed. Mostly because he thought it was the prod box but had cocked it up and was actually on a test box.

They once let me run 'rm -fr *' as root as a birthday treat. It was such an anti-climax. It gets so far, and then runs out of steam, because it doesn't know what to do any more.

Copying over the production French clearing database was much more fun. People looked very panicky for a minute . Fortunately, I hadn't committed anything, so it was easy to rollback.

Please can people avoid breaking the internet at the moment, because I'm on-call this week, and I'd rather be sleeping than working overnight.

Lweji · 12/02/2015 23:01

OP, I have a ten year old boy. Anything you want to ask him?

NeedAScarfForMyGiraffe · 12/02/2015 23:01

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Blacklight · 12/02/2015 23:01

@Opopanax
@MrsDeVere

My mother is dead.

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Koalafications · 12/02/2015 23:02

Iheartu BOLLOCKS

GiddyOnZackHunt · 12/02/2015 23:03

Ebear sympathies for on-call. May all your return codes be 0 :)

EatShitDerek · 12/02/2015 23:03

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PacificDogwood · 12/02/2015 23:04

I found a picture of the OP

VivaLeBeaver · 12/02/2015 23:04

Another ex bbc model b owner here. Started coding on that in about 1985 I reckon.

IfNotNowThenWhen · 12/02/2015 23:04

Thing is, < massive generalisation alert> the young people don't really know about computers. They know how to use Windows. And, please can you answer my question OP, regarding the Internet and the WWW?

Enormouse · 12/02/2015 23:05

Enormouse (well, guinea pig) haz computer

I am everything you hate about people on the internet. I am here to help.
TwatFaceBitch · 12/02/2015 23:05

And cou

heartisaspade · 12/02/2015 23:06

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Lweji · 12/02/2015 23:06

People, remember that the OP might not be exactly what he says he is.
He could be a middle aged WI woman, with shaved legs, a pearl necklace and baking a cake right this minute.
Safety on the internet most and foremost.

PacificDogwood · 12/02/2015 23:06

That is one BIG EnormousGinueaPig

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Blacklight · 12/02/2015 23:07

@IfNotNowThenWhen

The internet is the hardware, the web is the content.

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Enormouse · 12/02/2015 23:08

It's what I look like when I use the computermabob

Lweji · 12/02/2015 23:08

Hardware, software?
You are just confusing us now.

TwatFaceBitch · 12/02/2015 23:08

Fucking phone,

Notrevealingmyidentity · 12/02/2015 23:08

What exactly is coding anyway ? And how do you learn it ?