“BonziBuddy? I didn’t even know you could still install that anymore!”
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Google has been around for almost two decades now. You’d think people would have figured this one out already.
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This is just pure evil.
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Even Archer uses Google Chrome.
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Note: This gallery was updated with even more memes on May 30, 2017.
When you’re out of options, you can always try the trusty “hard reset.”
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Ain’t nobody got time to deal with an infected device, either.
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And when the hard reset doesn’t work…
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This one is just too, too real.
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You’re forgiven, Andy.
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Scumbag Steve, you are the worst.
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What do you want to bet that the password “password1” appears in the spreadsheet at least twice?
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I trust him to do it a lot more than I trust Windows Vista.
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Very punny.
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We won’t tell your boss that anyone can do your job… so long as you don’t tell ours the same thing.
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Remember when you could set a password without requiring the use of a capital letter, a number or a special character? TechRepublic remembers.
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…I’ve totally done this.
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When the robots do finally rise up against us, captchas may be our only hope.
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We’d love to say this was intentional, but that sign looks old enough to pre-date UNIVAC.
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The Empire could have at least set a password.
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I keep hitting the Tab key but no one has brought me my beverage yet. 🙁
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The project was too ruff to handle.
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OK, this is pretty much the most adorable kind of problem.
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“The link looked pretty suspicious so I only clicked it once.”
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He’s not kitten around, either. He needs this problem fixed right meow.
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Such meme. Wow.
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There’s a reason why IT guys are the busiest in the office…
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It’s a trap!
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Mind blown.
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Seems legit.
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Internet Explorer may be dead, but jokes about how terrible it was will never die.
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Sometimes the simplest solutions are the best.
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It’s currently in a three-way tie for the most popular key on Windows keyboards with “Alt” and “Delete.”
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Even your lunch isn’t safe from the hungry, vice-like jaws of the .RAR.
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You should have hit “save.”
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Troubleshooting? More like troubleshot-in-the-dark-ing.
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How in the world did we end up here?
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He’s even more surprised when his mouth is above his nose.
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Keeping with the theme of manual tech, here are a few of old-fashioned Ctrl+X, Ctrl+Z, and Ctrl+V tools. These are a bit of a softer touch than the hammers.
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The fears of yesterday have given way to these extreme phobias–who hasn’t panicked when seeing one of them?
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I wonder what data metrics it collects.
Editor’s note: This gallery was first published on May 2017. Brandon Vigliarolo contributed additional slides and updates to the gallery in March 2019.
Fox Van Allen is a Los Angeles-based writer for CBS Interactive covering technology, tech lifestyle and gaming topics for GameSpot, CNET, ZDNet and TechRepublic. He has previously worked as a news and feature writer for a number of other sites, including Techlicious, Tecca, WoW Insider (Joystiq) and Blizzard Watch. In his spare time, Fox is an amateur skydiver, retro gaming and arcade enthusiast, 8-bit pixel artist, podcaster and Twitch live streamer.
