Quote: Aaron @ August 12 2010, 9:16 PM BSTWait! I* have just realised something: if you're an IT trainer, how can you not know Alt+F4?!
* zooo
Because IT just means you can open word.
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Quote: Gavin @ August 12 2010, 9:19 PM BSTBecause IT just means you can open word.
Quote: Gavin @ August 12 2010, 9:19 PM BSTBecause IT just means you can open word.
I've been trying to remember when they started calling it IT instead of "Computing".
I was going through various old 1980's computing magazines prio to donating them to "the Centre for Computing History" and the job was definitely calle "Computing" back then.
You old timers with your modulator demodulators!
Quote: Griff @ August 12 2010, 10:09 PM BSTMy school "Computer Studies" lessons involved writing our programmes in machine code language on sheets of squared paper using a biro. Posting them off to Cardiff City Council where some poor temps (including my mate's Mum) had to type them into the Council mainframe. And then waiting to get the printout back in the post the following week to see if they had run correctly.
Ace.
(My A Level course, just ... 6 years or so ago, was called 'Computer Studies'.)
It does slightly. I've always felt that the 'IT' label sounds very lightweight though; as Gav said, evoking ideas of Word and Excel.
Quote: Gavin @ August 12 2010, 9:19 PM BSTBecause IT just means you can open word.
Pretty much yes !
I'm okay with computers, but my trength's on the training side of things ! Plus I'm a very fast learner, so even if I don't know a program I can learn it very quickly so I can teach it
Quote: Aaron @ August 12 2010, 10:25 PM BSTIt does slightly. I've always felt that the 'IT' label sounds very lightweight though; as Gav said, evoking ideas of Word and Excel.
It was PowerPoint that I was training this week
I was asked to do a power point presentation. So I jabbed all the trainees hard in the chest with a riding crop.
Bah
Final written warning my arse.
Quote: Griff @ August 12 2010, 10:16 PM BSTSounds incredibly quaint in this day and age, doesn't it.
That is the plot for an aces scifi horror film. With some evil genius kid reprograming Cardiff's main frame like Whopper or Hal. And destroying Cardiff by turning off all the traffic lights or something.
Quote: Nat Wicks @ August 12 2010, 9:12 PM BSTLike Lactans or Obarator ?
I will see closer to the time.
I'm an IT trainer for a quango. QUANGOLICIOUS.
Is it one that faces the dread axe of George Osbourne?
I work for a charity so I'll probably be doing your job next week. That and head of the army, we charities can do anything!
Because we're cheap and to stupid to complain.
I did GCSE IT in the 90s.
Quote: Ben @ August 13 2010, 1:20 PM BSTI did GCSE IT in the 90s.
I did Art because I was banned for installing Quake on the machines and having network death matches whilst teacher tried to teach us how to use the start bar.
My computer classes were called:
Computer Awareness
Computing for the Technology Age
And my favourite:
Computing in the 20th Century (taken in 1995)
Quote: Griff @ August 13 2010, 2:01 PM BSTI like "Computer Awareness"!
Teacher
What's this?
Student
A Ham?
Teacher
Very good. Now whats this?
Student
A computer?
Teacher
You did it buddy! You f**king did it! You passed!
My classes at school were called IT.
Quote: zooo @ August 13 2010, 2:51 PM BSTMy classes at school were called IT.
We all float down here.
*screams*
*cries*