• HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.org
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    26 days ago

    I will say there was a period around the turn of the century where everything got very “My This, My That, My Everything” branded. I think after e-Everything but before iEverything. It felt like living in a world designed by a three-year-old in the “My” phase.

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      26 days ago

      Ugh, I still hate when something uses the “My____” format.

      It always makes me thing of “Fisher Price My First ______” like I’m being belittled.

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        26 days ago

        Whatever happened to that My Pillow guy?

        Did he not put enough saliva on the ring? Did the leopards get him after they deported all the immigrant workers in his factory?

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      26 days ago

      Made tech support confusing.

      “Okay, so open My Computer”

      Your computer?”

      "No, your ‘My Computer’ "

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        25 days ago

        Hah, I used to do tech support and this is spot on. Then again, that was happening no matter what. “Click the ‘X’ in the corner of the window” would have them pressing the X key on the keyboard or asking “what’s a window?”.

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      26 days ago

      Microsoft started it in 1995 with “my computer” on windows 95. They replaced it with “computer” just 12 years later with Vista.