20% of Brits Think Steve Jobs is a Soccer Player
Steve Jobs is a soccer player, SaaS used to fight in the war and phishing is a rude thing on the Internet.
I know there's a lot of people who couldn't care less about technology and it doesn't bother me. My own sister doesn't know the difference between HD DVD and Blu-ray. I'm used to repeatedly explaining why a home movie I burned onto a CD-RW won't work in her DVD player. I've even got used to the dreaded tech support phone calls. "I'm at the local library, the computer is frozen and I can't find the power button!" She lives in a different world. Hers is filled with sheet music and instruments she's only had a couple of days with but can somehow play. Some people just have different interests and that doesn't make them any less intelligent than the rest of us. Be that as it may, some of the people in this clip really freaked me out. How could they not know what a social networking site is?
A little background before you watch, perhaps? A UK PR firm decided to conduct an IT survey in which they asked 1,000 people questions about technology. Nothing too difficult but sort of general knowledge questions like who is Bill Gates. The harder ones include, "What is a wireless dongle?" "What is phishing?" and "What is a pixel?"
Surprisingly, even the easier questions, such as "Who is Steve Jobs?" went unanswered. One fifth had never heard of him, 20 percent of people thought he was a soccer player, 10 percent thought he was a trade union leader, and the older gentleman at 3:28 looked genuinely insulted that he was being asked any questions at all. "Steve Jobs? I've never heard of the man," he declared. Or, my personal favourite part of his interview, "Phishing… If anyone of those [answers] is to do with this Internet or email, then tick that one."
"A quarter of respondents also did not identify Sir Tim Berners-Lee as founder of the Internet, with nine per cent believing he was head of MI5," said Lewis PR. "Six per cent thought he was an Arctic explorer and five per cent reckoned he was the first British astronaut into space." Six percent of people thoughtVHD – Virtual Hard Disk – was a sexually transmitted disease
To be fair, the Brits are not alone when it comes to ignorance in this area. The two American ladies at 1:47 knew who Steve was but were tripped up by Bill Gates' profession. Eventually settling on the answer, "Windows," the two knew that Bill lived in Seattle but couldn't name his company.
As for the two adorable French lasses at 2:37, "Very… little … bad English!" Unless their interviewer also had flash cards or visual aids, I think their interview can be discounted.
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Lol. It's pretty amazing how less tech inclined some of these people are. Now only if they had asked the question(s) "What is overclocking?" and "What is Crysis?" or even "What is AMD/Intel?"
actually the two old ladys knew that steve jobs was related to apple.
and the bill gate was related to windows..
NOtice how beautiful girls know nothing and old peoples know nothing about social networks!
heh, ask us who wrote The Brandenburg concertos, deny us access to Google, and post it in a music hall at your local university. Then they will laugh at us. There is always something for someone, and nothing for everyone. Still made me chuckle though.
o 7, who is bill gates? Oh, he knocked a few good together when he did uh oyaoyaoyaoyoyaoya(unintellible)come on Bill! Bill lad. Richest man in the world. - LOL!!!
What is SaaS? Ain't got a clue except they used to fight in the war. - wth?!??
I had no idea what VHD meant, but there are so many acronyms these days, how can one keep-up with all of them? If the acronym isn't part of your every day work/interests, little chance your will know them even if you are geek. Worst, the same acronym can mean many things depending on the domain; for example, AES means both an encryption method and "Aeronautical Earth Station".
I like the old guy. We'd get a long. lol.
Um, did anyone read that first paragraph? Holly crap that needs some revising! Sorry Jane, but it does.
the guy at 3:11 ROCKS! i wish i was him and didn't know what a social networking site was either...sigh
and yes, revision is necessary here. "I'm used repeatedly explaining"
Just a correction. Sir Tim Berners-Lee did not found the internet. He is credited with inventing the World Wide Web. In other words, he implemented the first successful HTTP-protocol client-server connection. The internet is the underlying network of inter-connected computer networks the World Wide Web runs on top of. The internet itself began as a US Department of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency project to provide computer connectivity to itself and defense contractors, and eventually universities doing work on defense contracts and became known as ARPANet.
But do they play Crysis??
I am in ECE Department and my professor did not know what overclocking is....
and yes, revision is necessary here. "I'm used repeatedly explaining"
Fixed.
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Aww... lol
Fixed.
Aww.. lol
DAMNIT! That is the LAST thing I wanted to do! Grrrr...
Man, I thought that Al Gore invented the internet!
SAS = Special Air Services, I kill you with my sniper rifle
SAS = Serial Attached SCSI, I kill you with my price
I also could not identify Sir Tim Berners-Lee as founder of the internet, and that it because everyone knows that Al Gore invented the internet. Right?
Aww... lol
Holding down the fort by myself today too!
I like what was said about ppl having dif interest and such, i totally agree. But wait for a sec i feel like a noob bc i dont kno who Sir Tim Berners-Lee is. maybe bc im not british but in the Cisco Academy Class i went through they teach you that the internet was created by DOD and not friggen Al whore. is this some country debate? Everyone seems to claim they created teh interwebs. r we choosing sides here? To me it seems like its anyones opinion on who created the internet. Im a little disappointed that there seems to b no god father of this great creation we all kno and love. at least to me
I like what was said about ppl having dif interest and such, i totally agree. But wait for a sec i feel like a noob bc i dont kno who Sir Tim Berners-Lee is. maybe bc im not british but in the Cisco Academy Class i went through they teach you that the internet was created by DOD and not friggen Al whore. is this some country debate? Everyone seems to claim they created teh interwebs. r we choosing sides here? To me it seems like its anyones opinion on who created the internet. Im a little disappointed that there seems to b no god father of this great creation we all kno and love. at least to me
I is teh noob he made www. bad word choice Jane
The interviwer to the "victim"
Int - "Who created the interenet?"
Vic - Well, wich one?, the one we know today or the original one(s)?
Int - Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, what do you mean?
This reminded me of Monthy Python adn the Quest for the Holy Grail lol
(Sorry for any error in my post)
I like what was said about ppl having dif interest and such, i totally agree. But wait for a sec i feel like a noob bc i dont kno who Sir Tim Berners-Lee is. maybe bc im not british but in the Cisco Academy Class i went through they teach you that the internet was created by DOD and not friggen Al whore. is this some country debate? Everyone seems to claim they created teh interwebs. r we choosing sides here? To me it seems like its anyones opinion on who created the internet. Im a little disappointed that there seems to b no god father of this great creation we all kno and love. at least to me
I think it really depends on your definition of what defines the source of the internet. If you mean inter-connectivity of computers in remote locations then ARPANET is the founding of the internet which I agree with. While if you consider the first browser to type in an address and view a page I suppose then that goes to Tim Berners-Lee. Even DNS precedes Worldwideweb being invented in 1983 by Paul Mockapetris.
In his document RFC 882 written in 1983 he mentions the word internet. So how could Berners-Lee invent something that was already named and used at least 6 years earlier?
Tim Bernes Lee is a founder of the www, saying he is a founder of the internet is giving him way too much credit! I'd refuse to acknowledge that if someone questioned me!
I liked the old guy at the end. The English still don't know how to talk right, with their silly accent that irritates everyone, except for the guy in the end. Most of the English have that annoying gibberish accent that's hard to understand, while the gentleman at the end obviously was of some breeding. He sounded more like the BBC.
And before someone yells at me for being a stupid American, it's not just Americans that find the accent ridiculous. I had several French friends say the can understand Americans, not Brits, and Brazilians have told me the same thing, as well as Filipinos. So, if you all want to keep your accents, sound like the guy at the end! I hate to say it, but I prefer it to the American non-accent. Well, except for the southern accent. Girls with the southern accent (especially Tennessee) are just adorable. French accent is too. Between those two, it's a toss up.
Also, I hear that 0% of the girls from the U.K. that write articles for Tom's Hardware don't know the difference between the World Wide Web and the Internet.
I'm going to tell your sister this, for the next time you get abusive.
Also, I hear that 0% of the girls from the U.K. that write articles for Tom's Hardware don't know the difference between the World Wide Web and the Internet.
I'm going to tell your sister this, for the next time you get abusive.
I liked the old guy at the end. The English still don't know how to talk right, with their silly accent that irritates everyone, except for the guy in the end. Most of the English have that annoying gibberish accent that's hard to understand, while the gentleman at the end obviously was of some breeding. He sounded more like the BBC. And before someone yells at me for being a stupid American, it's not just Americans that find the accent ridiculous. I had several French friends say the can understand Americans, not Brits, and Brazilians have told me the same thing, as well as Filipinos. So, if you all want to keep your accents, sound like the guy at the end! I hate to say it, but I prefer it to the American non-accent. Well, except for the southern accent. Girls with the southern accent (especially Tennessee) are just adorable. French accent is too. Between those two, it's a toss up.
The americans don't have a non-accent. I always find it hilarious that everyone I work with sounds just like a movie character. No joke, the first time I spoke to any of the guys over the phone, I couldn't stop laughing because it sounded like I was talking to my TV.
Horrid overused picture Jane... go find some new ones please