While some individuals use it for work or to stay connected with people they love, some do it seeking entertainment; and there sure is plenty of that in the online world. One of the many examples of sources of that is the Facebook group ‘IT Humor and Memes’, providing amusing IT-based content for nearly half a decade now. You can browse some of their memes on the list below, so wait no longer and scroll down to enjoy a good giggle.
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“Today, the most popular IT-related jokes and memes tend to revolve around a few key themes: software updates disrupting work, the perils of programming, cybersecurity, and AI mishaps,” the founder of ‘IT Humor and Memes’, Trevor Paquette, toldBored Pandain a recent interview.
“On the flip side, despite the changing landscape of IT humor, there are classic memes and jokes that resurface time and again,” Trevor continued, discussing the most popular types of jokes. “These evergreen themes tend to have a timeless quality because they touch on the universal truths of working with technology.“For instance, jokes about disconnecting and then reconnecting devices as the universal tech fix, or the ‘Have you tried turning it off and on again?’ line from IT support have become perennial favorites. These classic memes serve as a common language among IT professionals and enthusiasts alike.”
“On the flip side, despite the changing landscape of IT humor, there are classic memes and jokes that resurface time and again,” Trevor continued, discussing the most popular types of jokes. “These evergreen themes tend to have a timeless quality because they touch on the universal truths of working with technology.
“For instance, jokes about disconnecting and then reconnecting devices as the universal tech fix, or the ‘Have you tried turning it off and on again?’ line from IT support have become perennial favorites. These classic memes serve as a common language among IT professionals and enthusiasts alike.”
“These classic go-to memes act like inside jokes, reinforcing the cultural identity of the IT world, and they often re-emerge when a new event or development in the tech sphere echoes past experiences, highlighting the cyclical nature of IT challenges and triumphs.”
Despite being an integral part of our lives nowadays, the IT—short for information technology—sector might not be as old as you think.TechTarget reportsthat the term itself was first used in a Harvard Business Review article in the 1950s.“Over the last decade a new technology has begun to take hold in American business, one so new that its significance is still difficult to evaluate… The new technology does not yet have a single established name. We shall call itinformation technology,” it read in part.However, certain things that paved the way for IT as we know it now seemingly go way back.Complete I.T.covered some of the milestones in the history of IT and suggested that its history might stretch as far back as 2400 BC, when the first known calculator—the abacus—was created.Other important milestones included the invention of the typewriter (in the year 1843) and the microphone (1877), developments related to radio waves and wireless technology (presented in the late 1880s-early 1890s), as well as the development of one of the first programmable computers (1948), among many other significant technological advancements.
Despite being an integral part of our lives nowadays, the IT—short for information technology—sector might not be as old as you think.TechTarget reportsthat the term itself was first used in a Harvard Business Review article in the 1950s.
“Over the last decade a new technology has begun to take hold in American business, one so new that its significance is still difficult to evaluate… The new technology does not yet have a single established name. We shall call itinformation technology,” it read in part.
However, certain things that paved the way for IT as we know it now seemingly go way back.Complete I.T.covered some of the milestones in the history of IT and suggested that its history might stretch as far back as 2400 BC, when the first known calculator—the abacus—was created.
Other important milestones included the invention of the typewriter (in the year 1843) and the microphone (1877), developments related to radio waves and wireless technology (presented in the late 1880s-early 1890s), as well as the development of one of the first programmable computers (1948), among many other significant technological advancements.
Technologies have been advancing in leaps and bounds over the last decades. Take computers, for instance; the first one—the ENIAC(standing for the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer)—was introduced in 1945 and was roughly the size of a room. Nowadays, you can throw your computer into a rather small handbag and carry it around without much effort.
If computers went back to being the size of a room all of the sudden, quite a few houses would be in need of a makeover.According to Statista, nearly half of the world’s households were estimated to have a computer at home back in 2019; and the number of such households was reportedly on the rise for nearly two decades leading up to it.
When it comes to who uses computers the most—to access the internet, at least—in households around the world, males seem to take the lead.Statista reportsthat among 16 to 24 year olds, the difference is not that big as 60% of young women use a computer to browse online versus 60.5% of young men. However, as the age increases, so does the difference between the two, as when it comes to people from 55 to 64 years, it’s 64.1% versus 73.8% respectively.
Back then, Trevor also told Bored Panda that the group has become a place to share things that other individuals might find funny, this way providing them with a much-needed break. “The group banner of the ‘ESC’ key leaving the keyboard is on purpose,” he pointed out. “Many have commented [the group] gives them a needed break, an escape, from the constant stress and pressure they feel at work."
Trevor emphasized now that there are certain constants in IT humor that serve as a reminder that while the industry evolves, many of the core experiences and frustrations remain the same. “They provide a sense of continuity and community, serving as a shared joke that newcomers quickly learn and insiders appreciate,” he told Bored Panda.
Of course they are not allowed to put any USB drives in their computers. So far so good. What they do instead is use an old computer - which is normally used for breathalyzer - still running Windows XP. So he put my flash drive in and burnt all the files on a CD-R using a external drive. Because yeah, bad files don’t make it on CD.
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For everyone who asked why I couldn’t fix it remotely the computer is in the back office of a gas station. I assume they don’t have remote access software because they are worried about security. When the company dispatcher called me about this problem I told him what needed to be done and that the manager could do it himself in under a minute. The dispatcher still wanted me to go. When I got there the gas station manager was gone. I rebooted the printer and changed the default printer to a USB printer (it was plugged into USB and Ethernet), printed a test page and printed a report from the software that was left open (I assumed that is what he was trying to print). Then I went home
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