What's the most noobish thing you've ever done?

[Rip The Jacker]

We all know how you're all uber leet haxors right about now, but what about back in the day? We were all noobs once. We've all made really noobish mistakes... so I ask, what's yours?

Once (this was way back when I didn't know too much) I was using my PC, and I noticed all the fonts in my Internet Explorer window were tiny. I couldn't figure out why. I couldn't read any text, and I couldn't make the text bigger... so what did I do? Format and clean install of Windows. :pinch:

I literally went through the entire format HDD, install OS, reinstall everything process... because my fonts were small. Man do I feel stupid. :pinch:

[tesco]

Just a few week after I got my first computer...
I reinstalled windows 98 on it (because it was a floor model and they told us we'd have to do this anyway [and we got a discount :P]) and couldn't figure out why the product key was a few haracters too short and not being accepted (uh oh!) so my dad called the place we bought the computer at and it turns out we were trying to put in our "Microsoft Works 98" key instead of the windows 98 one. :frusty:

[100%]

In desperation..
I once called microsoft in the USA for help.......







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[Agrajag]

The first computer I ever used had one floppy disc and no hard drive. The floppy disc was of the five and a quarter inch, actually floppy variety. You booted the computer from one disc, then put another in to run a programme, then saved data to a third. When they brought new ones out with 2 floppy drives we thought it was wonderful. As was the advent of dos.

Probably the most n00b thing I ever did was putting in the wrong date and time when the computer was booting up, you had to do it every time.

True story.

[j2k4]

The first computer I ever used had one floppy disc and no hard drive. The floppy disc was of the five and a quarter inch, actually floppy variety. You booted the computer from one disc, then put another in to run a programme, then saved data to a third. When they brought new ones out with 2 floppy drives we thought it was wonderful. As was the advent of dos.

Probably the most n00b thing I ever did was putting in the wrong date and time when the computer was booting up, you had to do it every time.

True story.

I never did that. :P

[Agrajag]

The first computer I ever used had one floppy disc and no hard drive. The floppy disc was of the five and a quarter inch, actually floppy variety. You booted the computer from one disc, then put another in to run a programme, then saved data to a third. When they brought new ones out with 2 floppy drives we thought it was wonderful. As was the advent of dos.

Probably the most n00b thing I ever did was putting in the wrong date and time when the computer was booting up, you had to do it every time.

True story.

I never did that. :P

Bearing in mind that this is a man who relies on his PC informing him that it is currently 1989.

[Rip The Jacker]

Just a few week after I got my first computer...
I reinstalled windows 98 on it (because it was a floor model and they told us we'd have to do this anyway [and we got a discount :P]) and couldn't figure out why the product key was a few haracters too short and not being accepted (uh oh!) so my dad called the place we bought the computer at and it turns out we were trying to put in our "Microsoft Works 98" key instead of the windows 98 one. :frusty:
Hah, not a total mess though, you didn't ruin anything. :P

During a show in the outback the pc completly crashed for the video projection work.
In desperation..
I called microsoft in the USA for help.......
:O




I never did that. :P

Bearing in mind that this is a man who relies on his PC informing him that it is currently 1989.
:lol:

Damn mine makes me feel really dumb compared to those... :dabs:

[peat moss]

I installed a game Called Tank Commander in Win95 did n't like it so using search , I deleted every reference to " Command " in windows . :bag:

[Rip The Jacker]

I installed a game Called Tank Commander in Win95 did n't like it so using search , I deleted every reference to " Command " in windows . :bag:
:lol: :lol:

[j2k4]

I never did that. :P

Bearing in mind that this is a man who relies on his PC informing him that it is currently 1989.

1989?

Wrong...1984.

It was a PC Jr.

[DorisInsinuate]

Once I exited Football Manager and clicked 'no' when it asked me if I wanted to save my gave.

[Seedler]

I didn't figure out what lol was until grade 8:pinch:

[Workcheese]

I accidentally set fire to my DVD-burner whilst installing my PC into a new case this weekend.

[JPaul]

Bearing in mind that this is a man who relies on his PC informing him that it is currently 1989.

1989?

Wrong...1984.

It was a PC JR.

JR was never PC.

[Biggles]

The least said about my noobicity the better :ermm:

[Mr JP Fugley]

Don't mention it well.

[Gripper]

The least said about my noobicity the better :ermm:

We'll not mention paying to join a filesharing site:whistling


Mine is being to trusting and finding out to late what certain key presses actually do when you use them.

[Chewie]

I once formatted a friends save-game disk for Elite, instantly undoing about 4 months of his hard work.

[Mr JP Fugley]

I once formatted a friends save-game disk for Elite, instantly undoing about 4 months of his hard work.

I would have shot you in the face.

Elite was the only game I ever got addicted to. It took months just to get the automatic docking computer and you couldn't play properly till you got that.

So fuck, all gheymers are pussies.

[Lilmiss]

Apart from losing a brazillion albums through a winzip error, not a lot. :smilie4:





Okey, fine. I did ghey up the office pc with donkey porn and had to get my ma to fix it. :ermm:

[BrolyBoo]

Apart from losing a brazillion albums through a winzip error, not a lot. :smilie4:





Okey, fine. I did ghey up the office pc with donkey porn and had to get my ma to fix it. :ermm:

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL YOUR MA FIX IT HAHAHAHA

[Biggles]

Apart from losing a brazillion albums through a winzip error, not a lot. :smilie4:





Okey, fine. I did ghey up the office pc with donkey porn and had to get my ma to fix it. :ermm:

A conversation that would have been worth hearing :lol:

[CrabGirl]

Nearly dislocated a girls knee whilst performing a leg massage.

[Karen DiConcet]

Nearly dislocated a girls knee whilst performing a leg massage.

Dear god, you must have powerful hands. Have you ever punched someone in the arm?

[CrabGirl]

Nope. too short.

Pack a mean nutsac punch though.

[Seedler]

I did buy a gameboy advance off a friend for $50 not long ago.

[Barbarossa]

OK, here's one I know of, but I didn't do it.

At a company I used to work for, the custom was on your birthday to provide a load of cakes for everyone.

Now this woman, it was her birthday, so she got a load of cakes in, and set them up in the boardroom (we were only a small company, so that was OK).

She then decided to tell everyone in the company. Now, this was in the days before email, and we were all using AS400's, so what you can do is send an instant message to everyone that is currently logged on. So she did.

"It's my birthday, there are cakes in the boardroom".

Unfortunately, she'd forgotten that at the time, she was working on one of our clients AS400's, and had "passed-through" onto their AS400 (A bit like remote desktop), and so the instant message she sent was to ALL their online users. This was a multinational insurance company, whose staff were most bemused when they trooped down to their boardroom to find no cakes....

It took a long time for her to live that one down, luckily they saw the funny side. :lol: