This is from the days of Floppy Disks!

We were in our electronics department lab and were copying over our assignment questions from a 3½-inch floppy.

A senior professor (Great at Electronics & circuits, but challenged by computers and technology!) who was supervising the assignments came over. He asked the class about the progress to which one of my classmates remarked that the Floppy contained a virus and so he wouldn’t attempt copying from it.

The professor came over, and using a piece of paper as a glove, gingerly picked up the floppy and promptly cast it out of the window.

No brownie points for guessing the source of laughter in our hostels later that evening!

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Here is how i created a Facepalm moment for someone!

A friend of mine wanted the WinZip (used to compress files for reducing space and for un’zipping’ or extracting zipped (compressed) files).

I sent him a zipped version of WinZip to reduce the mail attachment size :-).

His reaction: