Mystification Of Computing - Psychology, Philosophy, and Licenses

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berk
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The WYSIWYG Case:

Microsoft Word, WordPress, Adobe Dreamveawer, etc. sent typesetting programs, and markup languages so deep underground that "learning HTML" became a skill. Okay, there's HTML5 now, complicated technologies, etc. but back in the day, there weren't stuff like that, there were no need to read an entire book on HTML. And LaTeX suddenly appeared to be black magic.

The Copy & Paste Case:

I don't know how this started out. But it growed so much that, a friend of mine did this:

"right click, copy. unplug mouse. plug mouse to another computer, right click paste."

Obviously it didn't work, but look at this: the user expects it to work. To expect it to work, said user must come from a land where operating systems hold their users hands through fields of lilacs, and everything works error-free. There is no such world. Even the most genial, cheerful operating systems like Windows and Mac doesn't help the user __that__ much. However, users can always maintain a high level of expectations from their operating systems. We live in an interesting world.

Nice thread, venam :)


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Mystification Of Computing - by venam - 23-09-2013, 03:15 PM
RE: Mystification Of Computing - by kirby - 23-09-2013, 03:36 PM
RE: Mystification Of Computing - by srp - 24-09-2013, 01:13 PM
RE: Mystification Of Computing - by berk - 24-09-2013, 03:15 PM
RE: Mystification Of Computing - by venam - 25-09-2013, 07:25 AM
RE: Mystification Of Computing - by jobss - 25-09-2013, 10:45 AM
RE: Mystification Of Computing - by venam - 25-09-2013, 11:09 AM
RE: Mystification Of Computing - by berk - 26-09-2013, 08:28 AM
RE: Mystification Of Computing - by venam - 26-09-2013, 02:27 PM
RE: Mystification Of Computing - by crshd - 26-09-2013, 10:59 PM
RE: Mystification Of Computing - by berk - 27-09-2013, 07:58 AM