As of: April 5, 2024, 8:35 a.m
By: Michelle Anskeit
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If your group of friends or even your (future) grandchildren make fun of how little tech-savvy you are, show them these pictures.
Do you like to be nostalgic and still prefer to use old-fashioned technologies? Then you may be one of those people who constantly has to hear that you are a “boomer” and just can’t handle modern technology.
But listen to me: that's not true! You're just not that keen on these newfangled bells and whistles. But that doesn't mean that you have no respect for it and treat technology so badly that you set the pulse of those around you to 3000.
To put it simply, you are not one of these people:
1. The phone can't handle low temperatures? “Then I’ll just warm it up with my toaster!” someone here probably thought:
Please don't do this at home. This applies to all images here.
2. Why did this router melt down? No plan:
3. Did the cell phone explode? Was the charging cable too old? All I know is that it should be thrown in the trash as quickly as possible:
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4. This is at least half as annoying as having your front door key get stuck in the lock:
5. Remember the phone that got toasted? Here's the counterpart... the MacBook that got frozen:
6. It definitely still works:
7. At least as good as this one:
8. Is it just me that thinks this looks like a deleted scene from Silent Hill?
9. Even worse is this poor Chromebook that endured torture:
10. The real question is: What happens to Chromebooks in schools and universities?
11. Pro Tip! If you want to see what a cell phone looks like from the inside, watch a video instead. You don't have to sacrifice yours:
12. I feel this pain very much:
13. You know, let's stop here now:
Need more examples of what NOT to do? Here are 15 more technology fails that caused all the IT people to blow their fuses.
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