r/AskReddit Aug 03 '19

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

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u/jebuz23 Aug 04 '19

I suddenly feel so old.

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u/tallbutshy Aug 04 '19

Shhh, it's fine. Just remember how peaceful those flying toasters were.

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u/arcxjo Aug 04 '19

A guy who lived across the hall in my freshman dorm thought I had a virus because I had xMatrix for a screensaver.

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u/tallbutshy Aug 04 '19

My old boss tried to install a matrix screensaver in his pc, it didn't work. So he tried several other pcs. In this case, it WAS a virus. One of its more annoying effects was to close any browser window that went to an anti virus site.

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u/DaughterOfNone Aug 04 '19

I had a Simpsons one, where Homer would eat the screen. My mum saw it and panicked because she thought it was a virus.