[mogoman]

Around 2001 I worked for one of the big dot com news outlets. In our reception we had a PC with a browser set up where people could "use the internet" while they waited. One day the receptionist asked me to fix the PC as it wasn't connected to the internet and no one from IT was available. So I messed around a bit (think in the end I just reset the DCHP lease) and to test I opened the browser to surf the net.

Of course with the millions of websites available I couldn't think of one specific one, so I just held down the "x" key and then pressed CTRL+ENTER (which automatically added "www" and ".com" to your entry - typing this on a mac I see it still works with Firefox).

Of course www.x(and a few more x).com was a porn site.

Of course there were a bunch of people (including customers) sitting in reception (and the receptionist herself) who could directly see the screen.

Of course the PC was running nothing else, so a quick alt+tab didn't hide anything.

I announced that all was fine and ran for my desk.

[cobbaut]

I remember typing whitehouse.com (hoping that was safe) in the early days of Internet... nope, it was not the same as whitehouse.gov!

[hdbsbdbd]

Thank you for that anecdote, it lightened my breakfast Pause :)

[LtdJorge]

Lol, in that situation, the best combination would have been Win+D, I guess.

[ale42]

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