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A comment on Why Does Windows Think My Keyboard Is a Toaster? (2014).

Re:Why Does Windows Think My Keyboard Is a Toaster? (2014) by enraged_camel on Saturday April 02, 2016 @03:04PM (#11412810)
This has some sort of meta-ironic value now that the "Internet of Things" is a thing: Is my keyboard being recognized as a toaster, or is my toaster being recognized as a keyboard??
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Re:Why Does Windows Think My Keyboard Is a Toaster? (2014) by TheSpiceIsLife on Saturday April 02, 2016 @03:22PM (#11412911)
The Internet connected toaster was first created 26 years ago by Australian ISP, Internode, founder Simon Hackett.[1][2]

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Hackett 2. http://www.internode.on.net/about/our_history/

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Re:Why Does Windows Think My Keyboard Is a Toaster? (2014) by ethana on Saturday April 02, 2016 @03:18PM (#11412889)
How to mod any toaster to control pc games in 3 easy steps. [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vI7tWd7B3iI

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Re:Why Does Windows Think My Keyboard Is a Toaster? (2014) by Johnny_Brahms on Saturday April 02, 2016 @03:35PM (#11412987)
It took me way to long to get that it was a joke.
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Re:Why Does Windows Think My Keyboard Is a Toaster? (2014) by rperce on Monday April 04, 2016 @04:54PM (#11425568)
I go to school with that fella
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Re:Why Does Windows Think My Keyboard Is a Toaster? (2014) by mirkules on Saturday April 02, 2016 @04:50PM (#11413367)
The other interesting connotation is in Battlestar Galactica: cylons (and by extension all AI) are derogatorily referred to as toasters. Your comment kind of brings it all together.
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