Computer: A Strange TV

>> 04 April 2008

We use computers so much these days that it's hard to believe that anyone could not know about computers. Unfortunately, according to the National Educators Association, 45% of high school seniors, don't know about computers. Sure, they have used a computer before, but they don't know about computers. Many of these kids thought that 'computer' was just another word for 'myspace.com'. Others thought a computer was a "machine that manipulates data according to a list of instructions, also known as a program.' Poor kids. They don't know anything. So, for their benefit, today we will learn about computers.

1. A COMPUTER IS A STRANGE TV
That's it and that's all. No reason to get complicated about it. A computer is nothing more than a TV without a remote. If you need proof, just watch this clip. It's from Saturday Night Live, a show that comes on TV! See the connection?



2. COMPUTERS ARE THINGS THAT YOU CAN HACK WITH.
Hacking is like when a fireman chops down a door to a burning building, where the fireman is the hacker, the axe is a random number generator, the door is a firewall (I know that's confusing in this analogy), the rooms of the building are the computers, and each individual thing in the rooms is a file, and the people in the rooms are Gigabytes. Hacking is basically the coolest thing you can do with a computer but you have to be able to type really fast to be able to pull it off. This is how you hack. (Warning: real hackers sometimes say cusses while they hack...)



So, that's basically it. Now you know what a computer is.

Posted by Joel at 5:35 PM

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