> > "But when I left work yesterday, I left my computer on!"
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> > Are there many middle-aged people who aren't familiar with the concept of a power outage?
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> I wonder if she was thinking that, having left the computer on, it would then have booted up automatically after the power came back. Like the lights. And computers, once upon a time, when the power switches were more mechanical than they are now.

Trust me, there was nothing "once upon a time" concerning the computer knowledge of people here. Case and Point: Someone called me today, asked to change their password on Windows. (Keep in mind, this person has worked here for years and would have to have known better). She called me to ask if, when it asked to put her 'old password' in, whether or not it was the password that just expired, or just any old password that she had before.

I really didn't know what to say to that.