Wednesday, March 12, 2014

Video: The Hero of Grandparent Wifi

<p>A time capsule from the era of Compaq Presarios and the Geek Squad.</p><p>Anyone can make a funny video, but it's the mark of the master to create an artifact of the times with that funny video.</p><p>And that's what we have here in the Ballad of the Wifi Hero, based on the McSweeney's story "IN WHICH I FIX MY GIRLFRIEND'S GRANDPARENTS' WIFI AND AM HAILED AS A CONQUERING HERO" by Mike Lacher.</p><p>The list of technological details that Lacher, and the video, incorporate is long. Allow me to list a few:Hotmail Usatoday dot com Compaq Presario Internet Explorer 6 The Google The Yahoo the Router (so capitalized) Linksys The Geek Squad "telephone cords plugged into Ethernet jacks, AC adapters plugged into phone jacks, a lone VGA cable wrapped in a firm knot around an Ethernet cord." Windows XP Norton AntiVirus "the Yahoo toolbar, the MSN toolbar, the Ask.com toolbar, and the AOL toolbar" "the TiVo was doing something weird with the VCR"</p><p><a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/03/video-the-hero-of-grandparent-wifi/284375/">Keep reading...</a></p>

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