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- loqqq, on 10/11/2007, -8/+347My wife and I decided many years ago, when our kids turn 16, they're free to make their own choices about their Internet browser.
- mark_1581, on 10/11/2007, -3/+220I work with adults all day long who have no clue what IE is even though they use it every day.
- phjr, on 10/11/2007, -21/+218I hope we'll get more of those in the coming years!
- whatthefu, on 10/11/2007, -8/+155Well when I was younger and didn't know anything about computers I didn't know there were different types of browsers. I always thought Netscape Navigator was all there was :(
- wildfire, on 10/11/2007, -9/+118It's where I get all my por... uh, news from, son.
- jiub, on 10/11/2007, -4/+86Or it could just be that she's um....8?
Got the internet in my house when I was 4 and it was just "The internet" until I was 12 or so and realized what a browser was. - dgblackout, on 10/11/2007, -13/+87if only my parents would have been like that -_-
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Might have something to do with why he doesn't want his son using it ... - ZeroNeo, on 10/11/2007, -4/+52mine thinks it's a series of tubes...
- sanman, on 10/11/2007, -4/+49Their own choices?? For gawd's sakes, what if they start, you know... liking Opera or something?
- gcauthon, on 10/11/2007, -2/+43I'm assuming Daddy explained what Internet Explorer is, so now the kid knows. End of story?
- Darth_tater, on 10/11/2007, -4/+44IE?!? IE for porn?!!?!
you have got to be kidding me - DevastatorIIC, on 10/11/2007, -7/+45Part of me thinks that's really cool, but there's something to be said for awareness. I believe that open source is all about choice.
- tnoy, on 10/11/2007, -3/+37Its a truck filled with tubes, obviously.
- macijuana, on 10/11/2007, -31/+63A sign of what's to come: New generations won't be so 3rd party ignorant, brainwashed my Microsoft, and narrow-minded.
There is a god after all. - jasorn, on 10/11/2007, -9/+40too bad the question wasn't, "daddy, what's windows?"
- sharigan, on 10/11/2007, -6/+37it's nice that use of alternate browser is increasing but this story is totally lame. Anyone will say what is "Internet Explorer?" if they never experience it. This apply for everything -- even firefox.
- wildfire, on 10/11/2007, -1/+31Ever clean spyware off of a friend's computers? Yes? Well, I rest my case.
- macijuana, on 10/11/2007, -4/+33Well when you had the internet I was stuck in the world of AOL. Parental controls wouldn't let even let me navigate to, get this, aol.com.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -0/+27Last I checked, far more people in the world drive gasoline powered vehicles than hybrids...so what does that mean to Pepsi?
/retarded logic - qwertylicious, on 10/11/2007, -9/+36Try raeding your sentnaces before posting to check yuo haven't muddled letters.
Seriuosly, it only takes a secnod. - Bamborzled, on 10/11/2007, -6/+32Bill Gates never sold IE. He never made IE; he "licensed" it from Spyglass, Inc. who expected their browser to be sold. Instead, he gave it out for free.
- judsond, on 10/11/2007, -4/+29An iPod to internet explorer comparison?
- pintomp3, on 10/11/2007, -1/+26eh, most users just want to go online. i think it's a good thing they can't tell the difference between the two browsers, because there shouldn't be. i switched everyone at work to firefox a while back, i renamed the desktop icons to "firefox browser" because "mozilla firefox" doesn't really bring "internet" to mind. i know a few people who renamed it to "internet explorer". ha.
- Avalontor, on 10/11/2007, -15/+39Does your child know which is the worlds longest river? the Nile or the Amazon? If she answered the Nile would you make a post about it? Do you even know which is longer? Why don't you take a break, and spend some time with your family. Your children have more important things to worry and talk to you about then the name of the browser.
- theonlyvlad, on 10/11/2007, -14/+37Oh come ON! I saw this story in upcoming, and I thought to myself "this stupid anectdote will never make it to the front page"
So, this is for you the gleaming future huh? Your arbitrary hate for one giant will lead you to create and support, and subject yourself to two others (Google and FF, they have enough partnerships to be one now). And you're all blind about the fact.
How the hell is this a bright future? How is FF gaining browser share going to reflect on any real changes in the world? Will it eliminate hunger? Will it cure the sickly?
No, it won't do *****, besides bolster the ideologies of open source. Bill Gate's fortune was amassed by selling Windows and your horrible IE. Now he's using that fortune to give back to the world in terms of real, actual, physical aid. By that logic you can claim IE saved many more lives than FF ever did.
I really hope Digg users one day grow up and stop living in a box. - pukiman, on 10/11/2007, -5/+27Did yuor brian seiorulsy coudln't proecss the wrod "Americnas", and corerct the error autmoatcially?
- afx1, on 10/11/2007, -1/+20I think it's a risk they're willing to take.
- ArgusSmith, on 10/11/2007, -1/+20Question: What does Ipod and Apple have to do with Firefox? Why should it matter that a web browser's share is higher than a portable music player's share of its own market?
- kodek, on 10/11/2007, -0/+19Syntax error on LOLCode line 1.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -0/+18I remember back when i was on AOL....and the only "parental controls" that existed were my parents yelling "get off the damn computer, you've been on there for 18 hours already."
- ydt89, on 10/11/2007, -1/+19I once tried getting my little sister to use firefox, she then proceeded to ask "does firefox have google like internet explorer"
- DivisibleByZero, on 10/11/2007, -4/+21Microsoft RELIES on people not knowing what Internet Explorer is by name. There are millions of people out there who think of it as "The Internet". Just click that little blue E icon and you're on "The Web"
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -1/+18She's 8 years old. Exactly how "aware" are 8 year olds of anything, much less browser choices.
- therightclique, on 10/11/2007, -1/+16the world wide web didn't even exist when i was 4. that was the year the NES came out. it barely existed when i was 14.
- ablez3, on 10/11/2007, -10/+25my dad thinks the internet is a big truck.....
- Tippis, on 10/11/2007, -0/+15Oh, I don't know... the v2-ish ones were quite good for the time...
- silverwolfe, on 10/11/2007, -6/+21The local high school here uses Firefox as the default web browser on both its Windows PCs and its Mac PCs.
- Nateon, on 10/11/2007, -2/+16A lot of highschools do now and the students actually prefer Firefox of IE, even the less computer savvy kids use Firefox now.
- max777, on 10/11/2007, -3/+16Im pretty sure most 8 year olds would ask what firefox is too.
- theotherlight, on 10/11/2007, -3/+16This article was pretty much a waste of a few minutes. But maybe I missed the point... who cares if this guy's 8 year-old doesn't know what Internet Explorer is, or if s/he not as tech savvy as the 30-year-old developer living in his parents basement?
People should be disallowed from creating blogs from this day forward. - Phennim, on 10/11/2007, -5/+18Microsoft has a spine?
- svenathon, on 10/11/2007, -1/+14Exactly. Your average kid isn't going to realize there are browsers other than the one they've been taught to use, regardless of what they're using. I wouldn't be surprised if his kids don't actually know what Firefox is, either.
- macijuana, on 10/11/2007, -1/+13@mtheoryx83
I wish I had your childhood. All of my im transcripts were saved and emailed to my parents weekly along with a report of all the websites I had visited, I could only view websites my parents preapproved, AND I had to suffer through all this with a dial-up connection. - asskicker32, on 10/11/2007, -3/+15My three year old asked me the other day, "Whats a computer?" I think Apple, HP, Lenovo, Sun, Toshiba, Dell, MPC, Gateway, acer, fujitsu, hitachi, panasonic and all other companies that manufacture computers and computer parts should be worried :noes:
- therightclique, on 10/11/2007, -3/+14after using seven translators to figure out what the ***** you were talking about, i found that what you were saying was true, but honestly, learn to write sentences that make sense.
- crazybrit, on 10/11/2007, -7/+17Yeah, and then Mozilla can have a monopoly on the software industry!
- Nadinengland, on 10/11/2007, -1/+11"The kids, of course, also think you find things on the web by going to Google" Were that articles last words... My ICT teacher thinks the internet is google... :|
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