Comments on: What Is A Browser http://www.startertech.com/2009/06/19/what-is-a-browser/ Fri, 16 Dec 2011 02:49:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: David de Beer http://www.startertech.com/2009/06/19/what-is-a-browser/comment-page-1/#comment-2341 David de Beer Sun, 21 Jun 2009 08:19:31 +0000 http://www.startertech.com/?p=1830#comment-2341 to be honest, not long ago I probably wouldn't have known the difference either. If you're not using something on a semi-regular basis, and the people who do tend to just speak in jargon accepting that you know what they're talking about (and, as I've seen happen on forums sometimes, deride and mock people who don't know for not knowing so they just give up in trying to educate themselves), then it's easy to be confused as to the difference between simple things, like browsers vs search engines in the example above. My dad still has trouble understanding the difference between a hard drive and operating system, or what value your PC's memory has. It's not he's stupid, it's just that no one took the time to explain it to him. Like my super-geek friends did for me. Posts like this are invaluable for precisely those reasons and I want to say thank you for taking the time to patiently explain very common and simple things in terms an average person can understand. There's a lot of value to what you're doing here and I hope you continue. Incidentally, I had a bitch of a time logging in with my ID account and I don't know why. Problem could be on my side, though. to be honest, not long ago I probably wouldn't have known the difference either. If you're not using something on a semi-regular basis, and the people who do tend to just speak in jargon accepting that you know what they're talking about (and, as I've seen happen on forums sometimes, deride and mock people who don't know for not knowing so they just give up in trying to educate themselves), then it's easy to be confused as to the difference between simple things, like browsers vs search engines in the example above.
My dad still has trouble understanding the difference between a hard drive and operating system, or what value your PC's memory has. It's not he's stupid, it's just that no one took the time to explain it to him. Like my super-geek friends did for me.

Posts like this are invaluable for precisely those reasons and I want to say thank you for taking the time to patiently explain very common and simple things in terms an average person can understand. There's a lot of value to what you're doing here and I hope you continue.

Incidentally, I had a bitch of a time logging in with my ID account and I don't know why. Problem could be on my side, though.

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