Technologically Challenged

Is that two words?

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I was just having a conversation with my Art Director. We have offices in Oregon and it appears that technological advances in certain areas may be slow to occur.

To make a long story short, our Oregon office was working with a local service bureau to output some film. We wanted to have them download the files from our FTP site. During the phone conversation, we were giving the website address to the person at the service bureau. Here is the pertinent part of the conversation...

Our company: Our FTP address is h t t p colon, forward slash, forward slash...

At that point the person on the other end asked if the forward slash, forward slash was two words. Doh!

[encyclo]

Our FTP address is h t t p

Not too technologically smart at your end, either! ;)

[vkaryl]

I have a friend who lives in Pullman, WA. He has various friends in parts of Oregon pretty much straight south of him. The stuff he tells me goes on not only where his friends live, but in Pullman as well leads me to believe that parts at least of the Northwest not only are technologically backward, but quite proud of it.

Now if this was a perfect world, my technologically incompetent husband would be from the Northwest. Needless to say, the world's not perfect.

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Not too technologically smart at your end, either! ;)

Yikes! Smack me why don't ya...

She did say ftp. :) Mistake on my part.

[rocknbil]

At that point the person on the other end asked if the forward slash, forward slash was two words. Doh!

Having worked in desktop publishing for 5 years, I can say without a doubt MOST service bureaus are Mac - based with growing "PC support." What you are experiencing is not an Oregon issue, it's a Macintosh user issue. :-)

All kidding aside - also being an Oregon resident I can vouch for many of your claims as both true and false. We have access to every bit of technology as the rest of the world and two of the finest colleges in the country. When Oregonians hint toward our "pride" of being backwards, it's not because we really are, it's because we are aware of how the rest of the world lives and we don't want it. :-)

Oregon gives you a place to live that's (so far, at this point) a great mix of the slow-paced old world and the new. If you've ever been to Portland, Oregon, you would see just how different it is as a city than anywhere else in the world.

Myself, I live in Southern Oregon, on a mountain, and yeah - pretty happy to see firs and laurels every morning instead of apartments. :-)

[mivox]

What you are experiencing is not an Oregon issue, it's a Macintosh user issue. :-)

Right, yes. Because Mac users never use the internet, and our keyboards have no "forward slash" key.

[rocknbil]

mivox, I own a G3. The comment with the :-) was never to engage another Mac vs PC war, I am not platform prejudiced. You can't deny, however, that using one platform or the other conditions the user to certain habits.

Old school Windows users, for example, are painfully aware of the three-character extension, while Mac users see it as a simple naming scheme without.any.systemic.considerations. Mac users are quite fond of spaces in file names and Captialization that wreak all kinds of havok across various systems. (Windows users are getting that way now too since windows 95.)

Many internet users have never even typed an http:// in their life. It's all about habits.

My point was just for humorous effect, in the sense that Oregonians are no more stupid than anyone else. :-)