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arcane terminals (file.garden)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by dosuser123456@lemmy.sdf.org to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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"oh, you know so much! howd you do that?"

"grandma, i literally only typed dir."

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[–] Tanoh@lemmy.world 2 points 21 hours ago

Mine was convinced that cell phones and landlines were two different networks. Like you couldn't call a landline from a cell and vice versa. This went on for decades, even after we infront of her proved it worked.