Pluggers by Rick McKee for June 15, 2023

Eh me bearly types that anymore.

Pluggers still remember FTP (as they should, it’s still hella useful).

Well … www is still in the address ;-)

What? You mean you don’t have to any more? How about http:\\ ?

I’m soooo PLugger.

Pluggers can still drive a manual shift car with clutch, too. That may come in handy again some day.

Other fun items at the Museum of Technology? The rotary phone dial-up online car fax.

Not this plugger.

I only qualify about half the time according to this strip. :’))

What? Not “https://www” :)

I’m a plugger and it’s frustrating when my mom will CALL me and read off a URL she saw on TV or in a magazine and start with the …http.. etc. I just say “Please mom just skip to the end part”.

What about the http:// prefix? Anyone still wrote that in the search bar?

Secret helper built into IE/Chrome based browsers… Type the web site name (e.g. gocomics) in the address bar, and hitting Ctrl+Enter will fill in the www. and .com. http:// is usually assumed unless special address prefixes like ftp or ping are explicit.

I finally stopped doing that, but I like this. I also still remember DOS commands and BASIC…