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During the Land Rush of 1889, 50,000 people raced into unclaimed lands in present-day Oklahoma, looking to claim a piece of two million acres put up for grabs. Within hours of the Land Rush beginning, Oklahoma City and Guthrie had populations of 10,000 people.
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It seems like the younger generation is often the generation in charge of having basic computer skills and walking our older counterparts through how to use them.
Teaching them how to save something as a pdf, or how to install a firewall and how not to download creepy solitaire game from third party websites takes up a lot of our time..
Eventually, though, you expect they will pick up some skills of their own. When they don’t, it can be incredibly frustrating to go through what you consider a simple process again and again and again.
“What is one computer skill that you are surprised many people don’t know how to do?”
People saw it as an opportunity to vent. And vent they did.
“I remember my aunt wondering why her document wasn’t in the My Documents folder on our family computer.”
“She had saved it in her own My Documents folder on her own computer the next town over and apparently assumed there was only one Windows 98 communal My Documents folder in existence.”-b*ttboy3
“I taught a computer course several years ago.”
“I remember the biggest thing for most completely-new computer users was not looking at their hand while moving the mouse, and being terrified of breaking the computer by accidentally closing a window or something.”
“Oh, and knowing whether they should single click or double click – this was a major preoccupation for some.”-timmyrey
“I teach web design at the college level. Used to teach community weekend workshops. Html and css with some expected knowledge of computer basics.”
“Local workforce development group would enroll people to update their skills, but would never actually check for prior knowledge. Had to teach how to hold a mouse, that right-click meant use the right mouse button.”
“Had to teach how to open and save files. That the web was not loaded onto a computer and that you needed to connect to the internet first.”
“Not a lot of actual html taught some weekends, which was a shame for those who really wanted to learn. Waste of time for everyone.”
“I started sharing curated resources for web design. started pointing people to a basic into to computer class that should be taken before mine.”
“Kept making requests to have someone vet the students before putting them in my class.”
“Finally gave up when i had a student who wanted to use her ancient flip-phone so she could take work with her.”
“No internet on the thing so made her user a school computer. She got pissy when something wasn’t working.”
“Turns out she was trying to go online with Windows calculator. No idea how she even got there. She eventually went ballistic when the code she typed in her email wouldn’t work (again, wanted to save the work to take with her).”
“I have almost eternal patience, but couldn’t take an irate woman screaming in my face because aol email won’t work for writing code.”
“The class was supportive and I patiently let her leave early. I decided teaching those weekend workshops weren’t worth it after that.”-mister-chad-rules
“I once had a guy send me a picture of his desktop. I asked for screenshot of his screen as it was generally easier then asking for the IP address which our company puts on the desktop.”
“Guy couldnt figure out how to screenshot his desktop wallpaper but figured out how to take a photo with his phone and attach it to an email.”-pixxie84
“Working in phone customer support, the number of times I’ve had an old person do a Google search for a web address instead of going to the url has made me realize most middle aged and elderly have no idea what a browser or address bar are.”
“‘Type “site url” into the address bar,’ I say. ‘I did! The page isn’t here!’ they say.”
“9 times out of 10 they were just on a Google page and I lost a week of life expectancy.”-taburde
“I’ve tried to incorporate spreadsheet skills into the chemistry labs I teach, and at the intro level some of them are REALLY uncomfortable using it for repeated calculations, and instead want to just work it all out one by one.”
“Some of these students are the same ones who complain that I give way too much work…”
“That’s not to say I’m not still learning new functions in Excel (just learned about sumifs and countifs recently, which def simplifies my gradebook calculations), but I really feel like everyone should have a grasp of the super basic stuff and have a concept of what a spreadsheet can be used for.”-caffeinated_tea
“I was training a new 22 y/o coworker and noticed a lot of her typing mistakes involved both the first and second letter of a sentence being capitalized.”
“I inquired about it and her response was ‘sometimes i don’t turn caps lock off fast enough’… i was puzzled but kept it cool…”
“I decided to watch her type a little later on and sure enough she would hit caps lock every time she needed a upper case letter followed by turning caps lock back off…”
“When I told her what the shift key did she was genuinely ‘mind blown.’ She had just graduated college.”-Satanic_Nightjar
“People are generally pretty computer illiterate. I’m not a tech guy whatsoever but a basic understanding of shit will save you so much time.”
“I used to work at a Planet Fitness and good god do the managers need basic training in computer skills.”
“I was treated like a god for knowing how CTRL+F worked and having a basic understanding of Snipping Tool for printing out QR codes.”
“They used to really push us to sell Gym Essential Kits and when writing reports on how much they sold they would bring up the report and count one by one.”
“I was a front desk guy and had to show my regional training manager that if you just press Control + F and type in an individual employee’s name, however many times it came up minus 1 (it showed the employee’s name one extra time) was how many they’d sold.”
“This saved us hours over the course of a week. In typical manager fashion, he went ahead and took credit for this and promoted his real-life friend who was bad at their job.”
“F**k that place. I’ve never seen a company with that much incompetence at a manager-wide level.”-PrecariousAchiuwa
“As a teacher, I’ve been saying this for years. Kids and teens these days aren’t as tech savvy as they claim to be, or rather we claim them to be.”
“They grew up in a world populated by apps, very user-friendly apps.”
“90% of apps have the same structure- the lines or dots to indicate the menu, same style controls or swipe methods, etc..”
“They know which apps to find and can navigate them very efficiently; however, ask them to do intermediate level tasks on a desktop or even successfully using their browsers when researching and they struggle quite a bit.”
“Things I learned in tech/computer class in the early 2000s is not really taught anymore.”
“Instead, it’s heavily focused on programming and apps, and while very cool and likely a marketable skill, they seems to skipped basic functions and tools.”-ElZarigueya
“Google how to fix their problem. Apparently I have some superpower where I see the error code or know the name of the software and a brief description of the problem and get helpful google results with little effort.”
“Everyone else seems to just say ‘I don’t know how to find that…’ and then treat me like some kind of mystical wizard afterwards.”-anon_e_mous9669
The little tips disclosed here about computer use could really save you time and work one day if you didn’t already know them, so it might be a good idea to break out that notebook and write some of these down.
At the very least, we can all avoid becoming another story on AskReddit.
In 1972, The Los Alamos National Laboratories patented a nuclear tunnel boring machine, claiming it could reach depths of 18+ miles. It uses molten lithium to melt through rock, leaving behind a tunnel with a glass-like finish.
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Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining” was nominated for two Razzie Awards for Worst Actress and Worst Director.
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A drink called Kalimotxo or Calimocho which consists of equal parts red wine and cola, dates back to the 1920s, originating in Spain. However, the drink didn’t become popular until around 1953 when Coca-Cola became readily available in Spain.
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According to Greek mythology, humans once had 2 heads, 4 arms and 4 legs. And because Zeus decided to split all humans in half, we now are constantly looking for our other half…. our Soulmate.
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Heinz petitioned American bun companies to consider equal hot dog-to-bread ratio.
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In 1984, astronaut Bruce McCandless floated in space completely unattached to anything, 320 feet away from the space-shuttle with only a nitrogen jetpack back.
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In 1987, several French taxi cabs were installed with a device that would shock unruly passengers in the backseat. The then new product was called “the blazing seat,” and it was being marketed as a way of making taxi drivers’ jobs safer.
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What life lies beyond the clouds?
What life forces dance among the stars?
What secrets does the sky hold?
What sort of ferocious creature is sitting on a planet waiting to evaporate us?
Or what sort of dark element hides in the vastness of the unknown, biding it’s time to unleash a dangerous fury over all the planets and lives in it’s path?
These are all the lighthearted thoughts I ponder when I think about the Universe and space. And what could possibly be out there.
Sometimes science and knowledge can be more anxiety inducing than fun.
Remember back in the days of middle school? We’d all learn about space and space travel and theorize about what lies beyond and it would be a fascinating process. That was cool.
Or do you recall enjoying films like Alien, Armageddon and Deep Imapct?
We’d watch them and laugh about how none of that could actually happen.
Now cut to 2021 and I’ve lost track of the number of asteroids I hear about that have barely missed us and or are coming for us.
Now who’s laughing? We know next to nothing about what is out there. And the more we discover, the less I want to hear.
And I’m not alone in this opinion.
Redditor ZenitsuCrybaby wanted to discuss all the things we may not want or need to know but do.
“What is the most terrifying fact about our universe/world?”
“Every once in a while, our sun just emits a solar flare big enough to end civilization.”
“In 1859 we had one hit the Earth powerful enough that the telegraph system became self powered for a while before burning itself out.”
“Fortunately at that time, that was pretty much the extent of our electrical infrastructure, so the damage didn’t do too much to civilization.”
“If one hit today without any warning, every system on long spans of wire would be fried. We’d lose a massive amount of infrastructure.”
“No refrigeration for food distribution, large chunks of communication infrastructure gone, massive amounts of manufacturing capacity gone.”
“Pretty much every aspect of life would be affected. And without that infrastructure, we almost certainly don’t have the capacity to rebuild the infrastructure before people start starving to death.”
“And once people start starving, things are likely to go downhill pretty quickly.”
“You might be wondering what are the odds that we’ll ever see another solar storm that large, and the answer is that we already have.”
“On July 23 of 2012, a similarly sized solar flare missed the Earth by 9 days.”
“In the last few decades we’ve added in some early warning systems and protocols to give us a chance of surviving.”
“Basically we’ll get about 45 minutes warning to disconnect as much of the electrical grid as we can, then hope enough of it survives.” ~ open_door_policy
“The universe’s opinion of us: Mostly harmless.” ~ FredGruntbuggly
“What’s even scarier is that if there is other intelligent life out there, it could have stuff one million times stronger than all of the nuclear weapons on earth combined.” ~ ThatOneDoveSlayer
“How unfathomably tiny our planet is in comparison to the continuously expanding universe.” ~Grentis
“The way that the universe operates on such an infinitesimal small scale, but also an impossibly massive scale freaks me out.”
“Even if we can look at the numbers and know the scale, I feel like our minds can’t really conceptualize it.” ~ Reddit
“What’s worse is that not only is the universe continuously expanding, it’s accelerating.”
“Meaning that as time progresses that distant galaxies will literally fade from view, the light emitted from them will never reach us.”
“Eventually the inhabitants of our galaxy will never know of that the universe extends beyond our local group of gravitational bound galaxies.”
“And even eons beyond that… the notion of other galaxies outside the milky-way will be myth.”
“Dark Energy is one cruel witch.” ~ GRVrush2112
“What’s outside the universe?”
“If it’s always expanding, what is it expanding into?”
“Any time I think about this for too long it reminds me about how little I understand about the existence of anything and it scares me.” ~ businessgoose3000
“One of the largest “structures” in the universe is the Boötes void. A void is a region of space that contains very little celestial objects or matter.”
“It is a region of the universe 330 million light years in diameter. Despite this it has been found, so far, to contain only 60 galaxies.” ~ NOVAQIX
“I’ve posted this before but I think about it a lot. Our civilization is so, so early.”
“The universe is expected to continue star formation for 100 trillion years. We exist 13.7 billion years after the big bang.”
“That’s 0.014 percent of the total “habitable” time of our universe.”
“If the big bang was January 1st, 1900 and star formation ends at January 1st, 2000. Then it’s currently January 6th, 1900.”
“What are the chances of that? Why do we exist now, so early, instead of any other point in the rest of time?” ~ TheReaper42
“Humans can’t understand the concept of eternal and we can’t understand the concept of infinite.” ~eggslocated
“That’s why I’m scared of the afterlife, If there is one. The idea of simply ceasing to exist scares me, but the idea of existing eternally also scares me.”
“I simply cannot comprehend the idea of existing forever and ever and ever and ever with no end in sight.” ~ edd6pi
“There could be intelligent life on other planets or we could be the only form of intelligent life in the universe. Either scenario is pretty terrifying.” ~ Thomas_Chinchilla
“To me, being all alone in the vast expanse of space is an extremely interesting possibility.”
“I scoff when people say it would be boring or a waste of space.”
“It would be absolutely fascinating if there was all of that out there, and then just us.” ~ dubspace
“You can be born into a completely awful and nightmarish environment, and never escape it. You’ll be born miserable and die miserable.” ~ DANYALKIM
“There’s also people born into these that do make it out and they’re much stronger for it and go on to ensure that many people don’t end up the way they were.”
“Doesn’t make it any better but at there’s a little glimmer in there somewhere.” ~ Reddit
“We’re not yet at the point of no return for the coming ecological catastrophe and we’re gonna sail past it anyway.” ~ zomboromcom
“Considering the fact that our planet is the only one known to sustain intelligent life in the discovered universe.”
“It reminds you of how many things have to line up perfectly in order for that to be possible.”
“It is a very fragile balance, and certain ecological and atmospheric temperatures/resources/chemical concentrations are essential.”
“Yet we look at the way we are carelessly screwing it up, but it is easy to imagine this one in a million planet becoming unlivable.” ~ twilit_earth
“We have millions of unknown living things on our planet, and most will never be discovered due to humans killing nature.” ~ Cubsfan630
“Tbh it’s not even just humans killing nature. Humans are also just not capable of seeing or hearing tons of things.”
“There could be a giant 4 dimensional uv dragon sitting next to me and if I hear a fart my brain will blame it on the dog cause I can’t see the dragon.”
“Or that’s how I interpreted the other posts on this stuff recently lol.” ~ raspberrykitsune
Well that is a lot to process. I don’t remember middle school and high school science classes being so full doom and gloom.
No matter what is out there, one thing is for sure. Humans… we have to do better!
We all play a part in the survival and the downfall, close to home and far and wide.
I’m going to stick to learning about English Lit now. There couldn’t be anything to worry about there.
Right?