Web page? Is that something a duck walks on?

October 23, 2009 9:43 AM

On your mark! Get set! We're riding on the Internet! Cyberspace! Sex-free! Hello virtual reality! Slightly NSFW
posted by lazaruslong (7 comments total)

Ask Metafilter: For your homework, and not for that cyber net stuff.
posted by l33tpolicywonk at 10:20 AM on October 23, 2009

It's fifteen years later and people still don't know what a browser is.
posted by Rhomboid at 10:59 AM on October 23, 2009 [2 favorites]

That's a pretty accurate portrayal of how most of my early school work research sessions on the internet went.
posted by Science! at 11:23 AM on October 23, 2009

Rhomboid, I am sad I clicked your link. That ruined my day. :-(
posted by The Winsome Parker Lewis at 12:38 PM on October 23, 2009

Rhomboid

Or at least a few people selected out of probably hundreds who were asked.

I'd like to think that if some douche with a microphone walked up to me while I was minding my own business and asked me what a browser was, I'd say something like, "Isn't he that dragon guy that Mario fights all the time?"
posted by Target Practice at 1:24 PM on October 23, 2009 [2 favorites]

Or at least a few people selected out of probably hundreds who were asked.

If you watch the video to the end it states that less than 8% of the people interviewed on that day knew what a browser was.
posted by Rhomboid at 2:44 PM on October 23, 2009

I clicked the link. It didn't work. :(
posted by LOLAttorney2009 at 9:09 PM on October 23, 2009