From our friends at clientsfromhell.net:
After setting up a website, emails, and hosting for an already difficult client, I received a call:
CLIENT: Our printer has stopped working, do you know why?
ME: No sorry, I am not a computer technician.
CLIENT: Well it worked fine before you setup the new website and email.
ME: There’s nothing the website or email could do to the printer. What kind of printer is it?
CLIENT: I can’t remember, I got it with the computer about 12 years ago. The computer is also broken after the website went live.
ME: Is the printer connected to that computer?
CLIENT: Yes.
ME: And they’re both 12-years-old?
CLIENT: Yes, and they both worked fine until the website went live… Also, my smartphone won’t connect to the internet now either.
ME: I don’t suppose your phone is 12-years-old too?
CLIENT: Don’t be ridiculous, who would keep a phone for that long?
Who the hell has a 12 yr old pc.
I have a few laying around that are that old, some even older. It is
easier to justify using a 300mhz pc as a router then it is to use a 3Ghz
quad core.
Dad’s computer was almost 10 years old, we just replaced it this year. I have a Pentium Compaq on my desk to raise my monitor up higher 🙂