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An edit of xkcd 2501, “Average Familiarity”:
[Ponytail and Cueball are talking. Ponytail has her hand raised, palm up, towards Cueball.]
Ponytail: Open-source alternatives are second nature to us foss nerds, so it’s easy to forget that the average person probably only knows Linux and one or two degoogled Android ROMs.
Cueball: And Firefox, of course.
Ponytail: Of course.
[Caption below the panel]
Even when they’re trying to compensate for it, experts in anything wildly overestimate the average person’s familiarity with their field.
partly inspired by the replies to this post but i see this kind of thing all the time (shoutout to the person who once genuinely asked “who still uses google these days?”)
made with this neat tool
Years ago I watched a friend type google.com into the search/address bar of chrome, click the link, then begin to search. Painful.
Reminds me of the time SEO put a tech blog article as the top link for “Facebook login” and they got a shitload of people complaining about how they couldn’t log into this new Facebook and wanted the old one back.
https://nyulocal.com/the-internet-inept-mistake-readwriteweb-for-facebook-hilarity-ensues-482cc4d1ba68
Old habits die hard. It used to be that the search box was separate from the address bar! In Firefox at least. I know I forgot to use it all the time and just went to google.com
This was two decades ago though. Even my stubborn ass has adapted and now I just use duckduckgo through the “awesome bar” as I believe it’s officially called. Can’t live with google as the search engine though. I need my bangs!
Yep, Firefox and duck all the way these days