I'm 60 years old. I started doing tech support back in 1990. I've done on-site, phone, chat, email... All of it. I'm still in the gig. I remember when this came out. I just turned this on to one of the dudes on my team who's in their 30s. He loved it. This series of videos should be in the Smithsonian as the best damn depiction of what it's like to be a support tech. Love this and you all who agree. Peace!
Great comment. I’m just watching this now for the first time which is giving me a very odd feeling as I was online at the time and it’s odd I missed out on this back in the day. Any screen recording of computers and the internet from those times should be preserved. But this especially needs to be in a museum!
I completely agree! I'm 52 now and I remember working for a large credit reporting company working at 1 City Block in Orange, CA. As normal for a Friday "some" of us took an extended lunch and watched a movie at the mall within walking distance. One day we get a severity 1 call and the entire movie theatre started buzzing and lighting up (Motorolla/Nextel i1000 with two way radio). All of us had to hustle out of there quick! (And Yes, I'm still in the gig too. Love what I do, just not the politics or managers that are not proactive.)
I am 54 and have been doing this since 1995. Same as you all types from basic help desk to Sys Admin now. This is my go to video when people are being idiots!!!
This video is way older than 2009. It predates youtube. I remember downloading this video back in 2004 off his website. This thing may be close to 20 years old and still one of the funniest, most relevant IT humor videos there is.
Yes, that's roughly when I saw it the first time too. It's so timeless though. The "Apache" server is so quaint, and he had a tab on "Monster", of course, looking for more money and more job cushion, lol. Now it's NGINX and Ingress running on AWS EKS or Azure AKS, or some other Kubernetes Cluster, but everything still roughly maps to today, except it's Halo Master Chief Edition while you're on MS Teams with others, troubleshooting your Cluster.
I watched this way back when, and to this day it still stands as an absolute masterpiece of comedy. It's so good you can still wonder if this isn't a real recording. Every single line is delivered to perfection, the slight voice distortion gives that "protect the identities" element, the acting by itself is phenomenal, the characters on point ... I just can't explain. Perfect ... and then, the penis. Thank you for this. Thank. You.
Couldn't have been stated better Sara. I've been working IT since 1992, and just happen to stumble across these today. I can't believe how old these are and yet they still apply big time today...I couldn't stop laughing. Any IT guy can totally pick up on the minor IT terms and phrases that come up, that make me just laugh, like... Derrick "Did you reboot your system?" Chip "Yes" Derrick "How many times did you reboot?" Chip "Three man, ya always tell me to do it three" That little exchange right there is GOLDEN. Typical exchange between an IT guy and a totally non-IT guy...hahaha! This stuff is great. I wish he would come back and do more.
YESSSIR, Patrick you are on point. As a fellow IT guy, I'm still laughing and that reboot 3 times quote killed the whole team. We were bunched up at my desk while watching the epic video and everyone cried laughing.
You have to watch episode #4! I died laughing. I'm sure you already watched all of them, I think there is only 5 made. Episode 4 quote... "How do you think I've been in IT for 30 years? Virus. Just tell everyone it's a virus and that will give you enough time to fix the problem"....GOLDEN!
13 years on and this is still some of the best comedy ever that I've seen on the internet and is still relevant today. For me, it's just the flow of everything, from the rebooting of the server, the frustration rant to the remote desktop. Oh yeah, and Halo's still around with Infinite now out with free multiplayer.
I was a graveyard shift tech support analyst. There were 12 guys and 1 lady. We got virtually no calls after 1:00 AM. My boss figured it would be a good idea if we played video games and stop an hour before the morning shift came in. We played Half Life and Unreal Tournament. The lady didn't want to play and had no one to chat with because we were too busy playing. She would constantly complain so by boss fired her. Online gaming on the company LAN was an amazing experience. It was a great gig 20% raise as soon as you switched. We had a fully stocked kitchen like a small 7-11 plus 24/7 takeout. It was a DOT COM and they had money to burn. It all came to an end in about a year.
i worked in a print shop once, many moons ago, and the IT guy was a Diablo and Q3TA player. So was my manager ... down time, lunch and after hours we did lan parties. we'd also team up and play others. that T1(?) back in the mid to late 90s was crazy when everyone else had dial up or async.
My God, sounds like the best year of your life! Dreamy and unrealistic-sounding, but of course, _totally real_ and GREAT! Nobody gets to experience this these days, right? Does hurt to hear of a firing, though. Uhhh... But sure, complaining isn't good...
I don't even work IT, I just am the go-to on my team, and I relate to this so friggin hard "Hey, X isn't working" Did you reboot? "Yeah" Show me *proceeds to lock and unlock desktop*
nicoqueen in my opinion it's hard to tell what they're saying, they're speaking incomprehensibly to where the point that it is inaudible, it sucks when people edit videos and increase the pitching because it makes it a little more mundane in a way, i got pretty bored while just watching the videos, because it sounds like Alvin And The Chipmunks are doing a voiceover of someone's website getting taken down by a professional DDoSer, now i am not quite sure if he was DDoSing but that was an assumption.
@@cfalcon0754 pitched up version is the only I've ever seen everywhere (even at times when funny videos was still brought on a cd from your friends) until recently I've seen the "normal voice" on youtube. I wonder if that normal version isn't just this, as the original, just pitched down. IMO pitched up seems better here, even I usually hate all the manipulations like that.
@lin545 hey. I was running Halo on my Mac and the other OSes were accessed through a citrix remote desktop client. I think I had 2 or 3 windows boxes running in VMware on my pc. I recorded it with an external tape deck so I wasn't running fraps or anything which probably helped performance.
You need to do more stuff! With all the Cloud, the UX, the UI, the darn frameworks, and all the cr6p that now is available there is a bunch more of inspiration to go!!!!
Always come back to this video every so often and watch it a few times, still cracks me up after so many years of watching it. Thank you for this video, we who are in tech, salute you.
Chip: "He shut off all of our e-mail" Nancy: "THAT'S WHAT HE FUCKING DID LAST TIME" Chip: "How many times did he reboot it?" WD: "Once" Chip: "I think you need to try it a few times" *Nancy laughing in the background* Chip absolutely destroyed this guy what a legend
Honestly, even after all these years since the first time I watched this, I still say either "This is going right onto BoingBoing" or "Jesus, what a f***in day" at least once a day. Cheers mate, this will forever be my original Internet meme.
just like my grandparents... "the mouse isn't working" "see where the cord goes and try plug it back in again" "where?" "behind your computer" "the screen isn't working now" "That's your monitor... underneath your desk, the big computer box thing-y" “The big cord or little one?" *"Idk,* which ever one is the mouse cord" "I took them all out" (ಠ_ಠ) "Can you come over?" (ಠ_ಠ) Fine...
That cackle in the background when Chip tells him to try restarting Exchange a few more times kills me. I nearly passed out laughing at, "You can't arrange them by penis."
Heck, I was happy with it up to 7. Eight is a !@#$#^ dumpster fire. I swear Microsoft must have a desire to close it out and is purposely trying to drive the customers away, given how egregiously bad 8 is.
Dude your a FUCKING LEGEND! I love this and come to it casually :) I am a IT Teamlead / Admin myself since 2000 and i LOVE this! Its a GEM its a shame some Admins of newer generation dont get the Jokes ;) THEYRE ALL GREY ;)
It's unbelievable how relevant this still is after all these years, haha. How many network and server admins can still raise their hands and say this is the story of their lives!
I work at a help desk and when I get new agents, I immediately show them this video. It breaks the ice for me to introduce them on what to expect on their call. 🤣😂
“They call it on-line, we need to get this thing on-line.” Something about that clueless demanding tone is just, ugh. Doesn’t know what he wants but he wants it anyway.
IME lets you be suitably BOFH as well. Of course, the main problem is that your personal Machine Of Doom is _also_ affected by this, even if you're root.
Wait...did they record me there? I mean i am german and usually don't talk english at work, but this... Being the IT-Admin sometimes is just THE WORST. *getting a call* "Tim?" "Brad?!" "Yeah! Listen! Did you took down our database?" "Y...yeah! I am updating!." "ARE YOU NUTS? I NEED IT!" "Dude! I told you, that i'll update everything in our next maintenance window. Besides: we have a mirror server. You shouldn't even notice that the server is down!" "Well i...whatever! Fix it!" *hangs up* *sigh* "Okay let's check heartbeat...WHAT THE F- THE MIRROR IS DOWN?" *doing a call* "Karl!" "Yeah!" "WHY THE FUCK IS DB-mirror1 down?" "Because Brad told me to patch it?!" "WHAT? I am patching DB0!" "You...oh fuck!" "YEAH FUCK!" "Brad is going to be pissed!" "HE CALLED 1 MINUTE AGO!" "*sigh* *thisidiot* okay Tim listen uhm...how long does it taketo reboot DB0?" "Around 10 minutes!" "JESUS CHRI...listen! There is going to be a big insert from one of our customers in around 4 minutes!" "OH SHIT! Do you have the number?" "Uh yeah!" "Call them and tell them to WAIT!" "I don't think this is going to work man! Do you know how much chaos this is causing?" "*BIG SIGH* okay...what about DB-mirror2?" "That one died 2 weeks ago and i just got a replacement! The DB is not ready for production yet!" "Doesn't matter! Can it take the load?" "Propably...maybe...i can't guarantee it." "Okay! We'll hook it up and then we're going to do a matching with DB0 and 1 and vice versa after they've finished!" "This is so ugly man!" "Thank Brad for that!" "Oh i will! Okay! I've connected DB2 to the loadballancer and set everything to come in on DB3!" "Thanks!" "It's going to fail´...HARD!" And it did! 10000 bucks down the drain! >.(\
@newswars-dotcom It does -- just not here. Check on facebook where the video's been stolen and reuploaded a couple hundred times, each getting about 20 million views before it gets taken down again.
How have I not seen this before? Instantly added to my favorites! When he deleted that email from the entire network before the guy could check if he had sent it I about died laughing.
This so well represents the feelings of non-tech people towards technology (the "if it works, don't touch it" attitude). This way of dealing with things is just baffling to me sometimes. So funny.
+Garet Robertson I know what you mean I hate how people just ignore things they don't understand instead of trying to learn how things work. I would be miserable if I went through life like that.
Wdym "non tech"? Anyone who works with tech knows that "don't touch it" is 100% true. Every time you fix something, you roll a "much bigger problem than it appeared" dice. Fixing stuff that works is something you do when you have nothing else to do.
I love the trouble calls when the client who needs IT seemingly trusts their non-IT friend's advice over ours. "Well, so and so told me that you did last time."
Yeah, this thing is probably more than ten years old and it's just as true today as it was back then. First rule of tech club: Don't listen to sales. Second rule of tech club: DON'T LISTEN TO SALES!
This is so gold, most people won't realize it, but this whole series is phenomenal. It pretty much describes a whole industry, at least back in the day, but still applies to today... Love it and whoever took the incredible amount of time it must have taken to make this so good, with all the references and everything. I just love this so much, I must have seen it near (no joke) 50 times.
Malovon posted this...but when I heard this part, it made me crack up laughing so hard.... "Did you take down the website?" "No.." "Well Nancy says you did." "Oh, I mean yeah.."
Could not agree more how well this has aged still… the classic halo makes me a bit nostalgic but this thing still slaps on lollerskates! Every. Time. 😂
11 years later and this still makes me laugh every time.
0:55 that fuck is beautifully timed. :-)
Still 🔥 in 2020
Ditto
I watch it everyday things at work gets crazy.
@@autohmae I laugh at that every time
The part where he quickly deletes the DO NOT REBOOT THE WEBSERVER email from his boss's sent folder just cracks me up every time.
Been there.
He did it with the speed of someone who is well-versed in doing it...
"Ok, yea- I did [rebooted] both of them so you should be good" ua-cam.com/video/uRGljemfwUE/v-deo.html
“I don’t see it either. Maybe I didn’t send it“ 😂
He wasn’t his boss. He was marketing director, otherwise he would have had a better understanding of what the it guy did and nabbed him for it.
"You can't arrange them by penis" is the greatest line ever spoken in IT ever
11 years and Windows still hasn’t implemented this feature request.
I can't believe that I just discovered this today. And yeah, I think that's the best line...
that line just about murdered me. I'm laughing as I type.
It still gets me over a decade later.
yup, no time to come up with a penis sort algorithm
I'm 60 years old. I started doing tech support back in 1990. I've done on-site, phone, chat, email... All of it. I'm still in the gig. I remember when this came out. I just turned this on to one of the dudes on my team who's in their 30s. He loved it.
This series of videos should be in the Smithsonian as the best damn depiction of what it's like to be a support tech.
Love this and you all who agree.
Peace!
Great comment.
I’m just watching this now for the first time which is giving me a very odd feeling as I was online at the time and it’s odd I missed out on this back in the day.
Any screen recording of computers and the internet from those times should be preserved.
But this especially needs to be in a museum!
I completely agree! I'm 52 now and I remember working for a large credit reporting company working at 1 City Block in Orange, CA. As normal for a Friday "some" of us took an extended lunch and watched a movie at the mall within walking distance. One day we get a severity 1 call and the entire movie theatre started buzzing and lighting up (Motorolla/Nextel i1000 with two way radio). All of us had to hustle out of there quick!
(And Yes, I'm still in the gig too. Love what I do, just not the politics or managers that are not proactive.)
I am 54 and have been doing this since 1995. Same as you all types from basic help desk to Sys Admin now. This is my go to video when people are being idiots!!!
This video is way older than 2009. It predates youtube. I remember downloading this video back in 2004 off his website. This thing may be close to 20 years old and still one of the funniest, most relevant IT humor videos there is.
Yes, that's roughly when I saw it the first time too. It's so timeless though. The "Apache" server is so quaint, and he had a tab on "Monster", of course, looking for more money and more job cushion, lol. Now it's NGINX and Ingress running on AWS EKS or Azure AKS, or some other Kubernetes Cluster, but everything still roughly maps to today, except it's Halo Master Chief Edition while you're on MS Teams with others, troubleshooting your Cluster.
I'm pretty sure I saw this in the late 90s when Doom and Quake were still the rage...
@@AndrewSBaker when was Halo's premiere ? in 2001?
@@AndrewSBaker we can see the Skype logo which was created in 2003
I don;t know, maybe you saw an older one? Look at 6:15, Linux 2.6.23 came out in late 2007
"How many times did you reboot it?"
"three man, you always told me to do it three"
Can confirm this. Love doing this to users who are annoying.
The really funny thing is that there's some truth to it.
Group Policy settings can sometimes take three reboots before they apply.
@@CynicalOldDwarf Was going to say this exact thing.
And then the crowdstrike outage hits and one of the suggested solutions was 15-20 reboots
But the funniest thing is he didn't really reboot it =)) - the PC of Chip was full of running apps )))
I watched this way back when, and to this day it still stands as an absolute masterpiece of comedy. It's so good you can still wonder if this isn't a real recording. Every single line is delivered to perfection, the slight voice distortion gives that "protect the identities" element, the acting by itself is phenomenal, the characters on point ... I just can't explain. Perfect ... and then, the penis. Thank you for this. Thank. You.
+Sara Fernandez Best comment ever. Thank you!
more TWID!
Couldn't have been stated better Sara. I've been working IT since 1992, and just happen to stumble across these today. I can't believe how old these are and yet they still apply big time today...I couldn't stop laughing.
Any IT guy can totally pick up on the minor IT terms and phrases that come up, that make me just laugh, like...
Derrick "Did you reboot your system?"
Chip "Yes"
Derrick "How many times did you reboot?"
Chip "Three man, ya always tell me to do it three"
That little exchange right there is GOLDEN. Typical exchange between an IT guy and a totally non-IT guy...hahaha!
This stuff is great. I wish he would come back and do more.
YESSSIR, Patrick you are on point. As a fellow IT guy, I'm still laughing and that reboot 3 times quote killed the whole team. We were bunched up at my desk while watching the epic video and everyone cried laughing.
You have to watch episode #4! I died laughing. I'm sure you already watched all of them, I think there is only 5 made.
Episode 4 quote...
"How do you think I've been in IT for 30 years? Virus. Just tell everyone it's a virus and that will give you enough time to fix the problem"....GOLDEN!
i love that the entire time on Halo he's just griefing his own team, which is identical to what he's doing at his real business.
hahaha
13 years on and this is still some of the best comedy ever that I've seen on the internet and is still relevant today. For me, it's just the flow of everything, from the rebooting of the server, the frustration rant to the remote desktop. Oh yeah, and Halo's still around with Infinite now out with free multiplayer.
pretty sure this predates youtube, circa early 2000's.
I was a graveyard shift tech support analyst. There were 12 guys and 1 lady. We got virtually no calls after 1:00 AM. My boss figured it would be a good idea if we played video games and stop an hour before the morning shift came in. We played Half Life and Unreal Tournament. The lady didn't want to play and had no one to chat with because we were too busy playing. She would constantly complain so by boss fired her. Online gaming on the company LAN was an amazing experience. It was a great gig 20% raise as soon as you switched. We had a fully stocked kitchen like a small 7-11 plus 24/7 takeout. It was a DOT COM and they had money to burn. It all came to an end in about a year.
Sounds like some great memories! Hope you're in a more stable role these days
i worked in a print shop once, many moons ago, and the IT guy was a Diablo and Q3TA player. So was my manager ... down time, lunch and after hours we did lan parties. we'd also team up and play others. that T1(?) back in the mid to late 90s was crazy when everyone else had dial up or async.
My God, sounds like the best year of your life! Dreamy and unrealistic-sounding, but of course, _totally real_ and GREAT!
Nobody gets to experience this these days, right?
Does hurt to hear of a firing, though. Uhhh...
But sure, complaining isn't good...
Anyone who has ever worked a moment in IT, knows how real to life this is.
And many years later, it is still hilarious.
So true
I don't even work IT, I just am the go-to on my team, and I relate to this so friggin hard
"Hey, X isn't working"
Did you reboot?
"Yeah"
Show me
*proceeds to lock and unlock desktop*
@@tangero3462 they used to turn the monitor off and back on in the mid 90s...
"what, it only took 5 seconds to reboot...?"
Where you have to explain same thing 10 times
Agreed!
15 years later and still top 5 UA-cam videos for me
Been in IT over 20 years... Still I find myself coming back to this and enjoying a good laugh in 2020. This will never get old. ;)
From an IT perspective, this is the funniest shit I've ever seen. I would so buy this man a beer. lmfao
+Nick Baker This is so weird. My Dad's name is Nick Baker, and he and I both work in IT. That aside, totally agree. Hilarious.
Crazy world we live in my friend! lol
I told a friend about BOFH, and he told me about this. If you don't know the BOFH, you have to read it!
You should buy him a Blueberry Snapple.
I can't feel my face.
I love the pitched up voices. Definitely makes it more lighthearted and funny.
nicoqueen in my opinion it's hard to tell what they're saying, they're speaking incomprehensibly to where the point that it is inaudible, it sucks when people edit videos and increase the pitching because it makes it a little more mundane in a way, i got pretty bored while just watching the videos,
because it sounds like Alvin And The Chipmunks are doing a voiceover of someone's website getting taken down by a professional DDoSer, now i am not quite sure if he was DDoSing but that was an assumption.
@@cfalcon0754 pitched up version is the only I've ever seen everywhere (even at times when funny videos was still brought on a cd from your friends) until recently I've seen the "normal voice" on youtube. I wonder if that normal version isn't just this, as the original, just pitched down. IMO pitched up seems better here, even I usually hate all the manipulations like that.
Sounds like south park
Just enable subtitles.
@@slightlyevolved OMG I just tried that out! They sound hammered off their ass at .5x!! That is awesome!
This is still funny after all these years.
Still funny
Still funny
@@kvailas Still funny
I totally agree 🤣
2020 and I’m still laughing
8:56 "You can't arrange them by penis."
I died.
Microsoft: Oh you can't? Hold my beer.
You could honestly write a script that “wrote in penis”. I’m now inspired to try this
All he had to do was ctrl+z while the desktop was selected and it would've gone back.
"Did you take down the website?"
"No.."
"Well Nancy says you did."
"Oh, I mean yeah.."
Haha!
Malovon "Did you get my email"...type, type, type, log into exchange server delete email....No.
IP urine
Radioactive Pete i remember those days fondly...
soundcloud.com/messedupmayhem/sets/bullshit-v2
Well why the hell did you do that???
@lin545 hey. I was running Halo on my Mac and the other OSes were accessed through a citrix remote desktop client. I think I had 2 or 3 windows boxes running in VMware on my pc. I recorded it with an external tape deck so I wasn't running fraps or anything which probably helped performance.
Apache restart taking 15 minutes for real?
Back when this was made? 15 minutes was pretty quick lol
You need to do more stuff! With all the Cloud, the UX, the UI, the darn frameworks, and all the cr6p that now is available there is a bunch more of inspiration to go!!!!
Why are you running apache in Fedora with a GUI? Lol!
@@Randych The kernel boot messages mention PA-RISC so that's a 90s HP RISC server.
14 years, 14 years this has benn up and I still remember it and laugh and worst of all... it's still relatable.
It is incredible how a 10 minute video can encapsulate my entire life. Still love this video 15 years later!
As a person who works in IT...... This type of shit happens everyday. I wish you made more vids! Such a classic!
7:10
"What is your password?"
"Uh, it's just the letter a"
The words every information security expert want to hear.
thank the fucking lord for multi factor authentication
Solarwinds123
@@Crazymindplow no kidding. They probably broke in with a privilege-escalation attack because of trash passwords
For apple! :)
The part where web dude accesses his boss's inbox and deletes his email...I did something similar to one of our sales people.
outbox!
12 years and still my favorite thing on the internet. I watch this at least twice a year.
Always come back to this video every so often and watch it a few times, still cracks me up after so many years of watching it. Thank you for this video, we who are in tech, salute you.
Chip: "He shut off all of our e-mail"
Nancy: "THAT'S WHAT HE FUCKING DID LAST TIME"
Chip: "How many times did he reboot it?"
WD: "Once"
Chip: "I think you need to try it a few times"
*Nancy laughing in the background*
Chip absolutely destroyed this guy what a legend
"the website is not coming back up because you made me take it down the wrong way..." ha ha
I watch this clip every few months after any particularly challenging client meeting.
Dude, I'm Hoganman at 9:53! No joke. I'm Hoganman in Halo!
Legend
"Ha ha, IP Urine!"
"That's a... that's a good one..."
Hysterical!
Honestly, even after all these years since the first time I watched this, I still say either "This is going right onto BoingBoing" or "Jesus, what a f***in day" at least once a day. Cheers mate, this will forever be my original Internet meme.
Thanks to this video, I still say "oh my fucking god..." in exasperation with shit at work. :D
When faced with a looming deadline, I find myself saying, "the Mayor is...literally...breathing down my neck, right now!" :)
I watch this at least once a year. SALUTE to the creator 💯💯💯
My first PC was a 486 DX4 100 and i still remember this being the funniest thing back then. Love it
AMD 286 16MHz :-) ...and some PDP-11 clones at school.
Still one of the best examples of being a sysadmin ever and one of the funniest vids on youtubeland. Well done and wish you'd make more!
This accurately depicts the struggle of real world tech support people.
I work on an IT Help Desk and I can't tell you how painfully accurate this is. From start to finish.
13 years later, and this is still as relevant as back then. Fookin' sales guys.
"Help a brother out." All of our sales dudes at my last gig were bro's .
Trevor: "Did you take down the website?"
Web dude: "No."
Trevor: "Well Nancy said you did."
Web dude: "Oh, I mean yeah."
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
I only removed my like to keep the number of likes on this perfect.
16+ years in, still laughing🤣
just like my grandparents...
"the mouse isn't working"
"see where the cord goes and try plug it back in again"
"where?"
"behind your computer"
"the screen isn't working now"
"That's your monitor... underneath your desk, the big computer box thing-y"
“The big cord or little one?"
*"Idk,* which ever one is the mouse cord"
"I took them all out"
(ಠ_ಠ)
"Can you come over?"
(ಠ_ಠ) Fine...
Been there
lol she better bake cookies...
They like to see you
@@shalokshalom I'm with you on this, x HnTr VDH x, cherish those moments, and get lots of hugs.
my grandparents "broke" their tv remote at least every other day, those were the best moments of my life
so much has changed but also absolutely nothing
setting desktop icons as background and removing the real icons: the most extreme desktop trolling can get
That cackle in the background when Chip tells him to try restarting Exchange a few more times kills me.
I nearly passed out laughing at, "You can't arrange them by penis."
Anyone else have nostalgia seeing how good skype used to be before Microsoft times while seeing this video in 2019?
It definitely used to be better. On the other hand.. Zoom. lol
@@ThatTimeIFell Teams is decent...I mean it's free so I ain't complaining I guess
Heck, I was happy with it up to 7. Eight is a !@#$#^ dumpster fire. I swear Microsoft must have a desire to close it out and is purposely trying to drive the customers away, given how egregiously bad 8 is.
And now Microsoft bought Discord...
@@banzai1690 Teams is trash, nothing close to decent
Dude your a FUCKING LEGEND! I love this and come to it casually :) I am a IT Teamlead / Admin myself since 2000 and i LOVE this! Its a GEM its a shame some Admins of newer generation dont get the Jokes ;)
THEYRE ALL GREY ;)
Why is this still gold after 11 years!!!
It's unbelievable how relevant this still is after all these years, haha. How many network and server admins can still raise their hands and say this is the story of their lives!
Our network analyst shared this video with the rest of the IT team on Friday and we were all rolling. The subtle details are the absolute best
"How am I supposed to access the internet without AOL?" JESUS. this was so hard for me to explain to people. 🤣
this one hurts. I have family who STILL use it...
@@morganalori you poor soul- my thoughts and prayers are with you!
@@morganalorithey use aol...email or dialup?
I work at a help desk and when I get new agents, I immediately show them this video. It breaks the ice for me to introduce them on what to expect on their call. 🤣😂
“They call it on-line, we need to get this thing on-line.”
Something about that clueless demanding tone is just, ugh. Doesn’t know what he wants but he wants it anyway.
John Simon usually they call those people Director or CEO.
20 years later, I still have tears!
This is giving me nostalgia to the days of the glorious old operating systems.
IME lets you be suitably BOFH as well. Of course, the main problem is that your personal Machine Of Doom is _also_ affected by this, even if you're root.
Back again watching this. All time classic.
2:22 "...well the website's down now." lmfaooooo
Wait...did they record me there?
I mean i am german and usually don't talk english at work, but this...
Being the IT-Admin sometimes is just THE WORST.
*getting a call*
"Tim?"
"Brad?!"
"Yeah! Listen! Did you took down our database?"
"Y...yeah! I am updating!."
"ARE YOU NUTS? I NEED IT!"
"Dude! I told you, that i'll update everything in our next maintenance window. Besides: we have a mirror server. You shouldn't even notice that the server is down!"
"Well i...whatever! Fix it!"
*hangs up*
*sigh*
"Okay let's check heartbeat...WHAT THE F- THE MIRROR IS DOWN?"
*doing a call*
"Karl!"
"Yeah!"
"WHY THE FUCK IS DB-mirror1 down?"
"Because Brad told me to patch it?!"
"WHAT? I am patching DB0!"
"You...oh fuck!"
"YEAH FUCK!"
"Brad is going to be pissed!"
"HE CALLED 1 MINUTE AGO!"
"*sigh* *thisidiot* okay Tim listen uhm...how long does it taketo reboot DB0?"
"Around 10 minutes!"
"JESUS CHRI...listen! There is going to be a big insert from one of our customers in around 4 minutes!"
"OH SHIT! Do you have the number?"
"Uh yeah!"
"Call them and tell them to WAIT!"
"I don't think this is going to work man! Do you know how much chaos this is causing?"
"*BIG SIGH* okay...what about DB-mirror2?"
"That one died 2 weeks ago and i just got a replacement! The DB is not ready for production yet!"
"Doesn't matter! Can it take the load?"
"Propably...maybe...i can't guarantee it."
"Okay! We'll hook it up and then we're going to do a matching with DB0 and 1 and vice versa after they've finished!"
"This is so ugly man!"
"Thank Brad for that!"
"Oh i will! Okay! I've connected DB2 to the loadballancer and set everything to come in on DB3!"
"Thanks!"
"It's going to fail´...HARD!"
And it did! 10000 bucks down the drain! >.(\
APR 14, 2009 ??? This is hilarious and should have wayyyyyyyyyyy more hits!!!
I think it was originally posted somewhere other than UA-cam.
Correct. I saw this in either 2003 or 2004 on their own website.
@newswars-dotcom It does -- just not here. Check on facebook where the video's been stolen and reuploaded a couple hundred times, each getting about 20 million views before it gets taken down again.
2022 and showing this vid to kids that were 7 when it was uploaded. Still hilarious!
Watched this when I was 14 and didn't get it. I'm 26 now, been working in IT a few years. This video is almost too painfully relatable now...
I saw this the first day it came out and like a decade and a half later I just laugh everytime.
This series is STILL accurate and even funnier now working in IT and knowing people like this lmao
How have I not seen this before? Instantly added to my favorites! When he deleted that email from the entire network before the guy could check if he had sent it I about died laughing.
This is the work from home break we all need today. Thanks Josh.
The deafening noise from the server farm's cooling system gets me every time!
I love everything about this. Thank you for successfully capturing 10:24 mins of my attention Josh!
It has been 9 years. I am just pinging you so you don't forget this exists and can watch it again.
Never gets old 😂 .. and whatever you do,
DO NOT REBOOT THE WEB SERVER !!
Should be required viewing for anyone working in IT. CONFIRMED CLASSIC
This video is a timeless classic
How have I only just found this? Superb.
I fucking love this so much. Why did it have to end :(
This so well represents the feelings of non-tech people towards technology (the "if it works, don't touch it" attitude). This way of dealing with things is just baffling to me sometimes. So funny.
+Garet Robertson I know what you mean I hate how people just ignore things they don't understand instead of trying to learn how things work. I would be miserable if I went through life like that.
+rentacow nah, ignorance is a bliss. I envy people who don't want to go through the trouble of learning things.
Wdym "non tech"? Anyone who works with tech knows that "don't touch it" is 100% true. Every time you fix something, you roll a "much bigger problem than it appeared" dice. Fixing stuff that works is something you do when you have nothing else to do.
I saw this as a teen and think about this to this day and I work in IT so it’s still relevant. Thank you for the laughs 😆
I love the trouble calls when the client who needs IT seemingly trusts their non-IT friend's advice over ours. "Well, so and so told me that you did last time."
I need to check with my friend to see if your comment was funny : )
Back again for my annual watch through. As always, thanks for this gold
10 years later.. still totally relevant..
Wait, "#1"? There are more? I never knew!
One of my very favorite UA-cam videos, so I'm glad to find out there are more.
Yeah, this thing is probably more than ten years old and it's just as true today as it was back then.
First rule of tech club: Don't listen to sales.
Second rule of tech club: DON'T LISTEN TO SALES!
I come back and watch this when I'm having a bad day and need a laugh. It works EVERY time!
The holy grail of IT humor. Like See Bass said, "11 (now 12) years later still makes me laugh"
How does this only have 14k views? Seriously this is classic GOLD!!
"So the website wasn't down." "Uh, well, maybe that's not what I meant." TOO real, lol.
watching this as an IT guy high at work while remoted into a computer. How we have come full circle.
This is so gold, most people won't realize it, but this whole series is phenomenal. It pretty much describes a whole industry, at least back in the day, but still applies to today...
Love it and whoever took the incredible amount of time it must have taken to make this so good, with all the references and everything.
I just love this so much, I must have seen it near (no joke) 50 times.
This should have 100 million views.. timeless IT gold!
Damn you Crowdstrike!
This video unlike me ages like fine wine. My brother reminded me of it and its still just as funny so many years later.
6:59 His reaction to the ghetto windows logo screen saver is hilarious!
Thank you for this classic!
Man this must have been so much effort to do. WELL DONE!
This is the most timeless IT video ever made.
As a web developer working with a sales department this is VERY relatable. 10/10
Exactly! Web dev here as well. Came here again after several years when I remembered that IP urine joke 😂
Malovon posted this...but when I heard this part, it made me crack up laughing so hard....
"Did you take down the website?"
"No.."
"Well Nancy says you did."
"Oh, I mean yeah.."
Same here Pat, that was another epic quote
Remote tech just rebooted the wrong server taking our web down... had to send this banger out to educate the youngins.
Whoever wrote the script hit it out of the park. So hilarious!
8:56 "You can't go back. You can't arrange them by penis".
That cracks me up every time I hear that :)
You can though. People have made apps for that 😂😂
13 years later this is still so accurate
Every so often you need to re-watch the classics
Could not agree more how well this has aged still… the classic halo makes me a bit nostalgic but this thing still slaps on lollerskates! Every. Time. 😂
This is one of the best vids on the internets. I've watched it at least a dozen times, and every time I laugh. Thanks!
As a Linux technician, I can't even put in words how true this is.
😂😂😂😂😂
Its giving me PTSD, post tech stress disorder