As long as computers have been around, there have been users that don't know how to operate it. People who do know how to work computers tend to stick out to people who don't know how, resulting in them just asking anything that they don't know or want to know.

Back in the day, computer savvy people would ofter respond with a plain and simple: RTFM! (Read The Fucking Manual!). This relates to "Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish, and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day." uhm, I ment "Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish, and he will eat for a lifetime.". The same goes for RTFM; give someone the answer, and he'll be satisfied for a while (untill the next problem arises). Learn a computer user to read the manual (or search the internet) and maybe next time, he will find the solution himself, giving you more time to play video games, read slashdot or what ever you like to do uninterrupted.

I've hinted a bit to the change that has taken place over the years. In the past, when you had a problem with your computer, software or protocol, you would have to go and dive into the manual to see if you could find what was wrong. Nowadays, Google has indexed most of the internet, with Web 2.0, people are interacting all over the place, so the best way to find a solution to a problem has become Google.

RTFM isn't used all that much anymore, most of the time, people are just given a link to Google with the query they should have used, to show them their answer is right there, on the first result google returned.

Today, I've found there is a new and humorous way to redirect people to Google and get the hint across that they should try the search themselves sometimes.

Go ahead and check it out.