Helpdesk ca. 1450

[ellenkushner]

On YouTube, here.

I feel a horrible sense of deja vu all over again....

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[huladavid.livejournal.com]

THANK YOU! A friend showed this to me yesterday night, and I wanted to show it to some friends. Thanks again.

I reduced me to tears, 'specially because I (of all people) worked a help desk. I was also a sports writer, which is just as odd.

[temporus.livejournal.com]

As someone who works in IT, and an amatuer medievalist, this had me rolling. Thanks for sharing.

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

That has English subtitles since i first saw it; my German sorta got me through, but now it's far funnier. (And far more painful. Reminding me of the first time I got a modem, and plugged it in....and then what? Oh, dial the phone to the connect number, and....hold it up to the computer? Argh.)

[irismoonlight.livejournal.com]

*HEE!*

[yaoi-in-exile.livejournal.com]

Thaaaat was pretty amazing. Even if I could only comprehend the English. X3!

...But why deja vu? 0.0 Did you have a hard time learning to read? Or, er. Something? ^^;

[ellen-kushner.livejournal.com]

I know - I laughed so hard I cried, too.

[ellen-kushner.livejournal.com]

No, my darling - but I was definitely one of those people who, back in the Dark Ages when computers first appeared in our land, had to be shown more than once how to turn the sweet little things on, and did in fact lose entire documents due to hitting the wrong button, more than once. And was filled with the pity & terror thereof. If I had been around in 1450, I would have turned the book upside down. And cried.

[yaoi-in-exile.livejournal.com]

Ohh, dear. X3! I wonder if they had the Geek Squad in the 1450's. Only instead of driving little black-and-white beetles, they would have swung in on vines. Or painted horses black and white. (D

[mecurtin.livejournal.com]

Oh man. I'd send this to my parents, but I don't know if they could figure out how to watch it without me coaching them through each step.

You know what's really scary? Knowing that 30 years from now I'm going to be on the phone-equivalent with my daughter as she coaches *me* through some technology or other -- and I have no idea what technology that will be.

[ellen-kushner.livejournal.com]

You make me laugh so hard!!!

Don't ever go away.

[ellen-kushner.livejournal.com]

Yet another reason I wish I'd had a daughter.

Maybe I can borrow yours when we get that far?

[yaoi-in-exile.livejournal.com]

As long as you keep writing actual words in coherent sentences, Ms. Kushner, I'll be around to hang off of them with dazed, fangirly expressions. (3