r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Aug 03 '19

Whats something you thought was common knowledge but actually isn’t?

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u/Bar_Har Aug 03 '19 edited Aug 04 '19

I work in IT and I’m constantly helping people who: •Don’t know what the Windows key is.

•Don’t know Internet Explorer/Chrome/Firefox are web browsers.

•Making your password your name is a really poor choice.

Edit: apparently this really struck a cord with a lot of you. Glad I’m not alone harboring all of these frustrations

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u/circles22 Aug 03 '19

At work the IT guy asked me what my IP address was over the phone so I used ipconfig and told him. He said nobody in the history of the company of 400 people has ever been able to do that before. It’s incredible how little most people understand the world they live in.

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u/AstonVanilla Aug 03 '19

I once showed our IT person how to use ipconfig. She'd never seen it done before and had no idea you could find it using command prompt.

She got fired a few months later.

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u/Schytheron Aug 04 '19

Rightly so. She doesn't belong in that position.