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  •  Could You Explain Programming Please - The Daily WTF

    From the page: "Being a programmer and the only computer literate person in my family, I get tech support calls from my family all the time. I got a phone call from a brother-in-law today: Him: Hey, you're good with computers right? Me: Yes. Him: And you know how to... more

    Reviewed by TONYYB Jan 11 2008, 06:24am ( 48 reviews ) thedailywtf.com

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  • Rated by Sensenmann11 on Jun 18, 10:00am

    I knew better at 12, that's when I stopped trying to make games with BMPs.
  • Rated by Blackline101 on May 12 2009, 6:39am

    yup, I have something like that that happens here all the time.... Him: Can't find my saved document... HELP! Me: Did you actually saved this time or did you just closed the window accidentialy again? Him: Hmmm.... yup... then they start blaming pc's, and tell that they suck >.>
  • Rated by wheresmyhouse on Mar 29 2009, 6:31pm

    Seems computers are so simple nowadays you can just will one to do what you want. I wish I was good enough with computers to make my "Find a way to make me hundreds of millions of dollars, and put that plan into motion," algorithm work. I tried giving it a .bat extension.
  • Rated by Wired2k7 on Feb 24 2009, 9:09am

    I love all the computer illiterate people stories :)
  • Reviewed by nphp16 on Jan 16 2009, 5:32pm

    "Hey, you're good at computers right? Could you--" "NO, FUCK OFF." Don't you just want to say this sometimes?
  • Rated by flotn on Jan 10 2009, 1:46am

    Make next stumble really cool and make me rich. GO!
  • Rated by kataztrophy on Jan 07 2009, 1:32pm

    From the page: "Me: Wait a minute. Are you asking me to explain how to program computers? Him: Yeah. Me: Over the phone? Him: Yeah." *face palm*
  • Reviewed by Byno on Jan 03 2009, 3:15pm

    Can't be true (can it?) When asked what I'm studying (Computer Science) I always tense up dreading what their next question might be.