Technology has given us many things – the telephone, electricity, the mobile phone, television – the list goes on and on.
Technology has also gifted us the Internet and Twitter, giving people from all over the world an outlet in order to express ideas, opinions and news in 140 characters or less.
It is also a perfect outlet for the comedians among us, with those gifted with funny bones seizing on trends and popular culture with an array of memes, gags and puns.
Here at CBR we thought we would combine the best of both worlds, bringing you the funniest tweets about technology.
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Who didn’t want to be Kate Winslet in this famous scene from Titanic? No, only me…OK then. The famous scene where Leo sketches Kate has been given a 21st Century upgrade with the Apple Pencil, with this particular tweet capitalising on the Pencil’s launch for one of the best timed, and funny, tweets of all time.
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What do teenagers and Google have in common?
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Teenagers and Google have more in common than we like to think, with this tweet perfectly summing up the main similarity. Although Google has an answer for everything, those answers are without any of the huffing, stamping of feet and slamming of doors most commonly seen with teenagers.
Get the neighbours’ curtains twitching with this next prank
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A classic among wifi owners as a deterrent for stealing access, raising a particular gripe or just having a laugh. Naming your network has so many possibilities, with the above tweet from 2015 sure to have the neighborhood’s curtains twitching with people trying to spy the covert van.
Next up is a sure way to make sure no one steals your laptop
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We’ve all been there – in Starbucks enjoying the free wifi and a flat white when mother nature calls. But what to do with your laptop? Leave it or unplug and head to the ladies or gents? Chelsea Lockwood has come up with the perfect solution, a deterrent based on a quite aggressive and scary search history. I’m sure it would be quite effective, after all, would you steal a laptop from someone who’s so “good at guns”?
The cloud – the fluffy thing in the sky?
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Surely there are people who do not confuse the cloud with actual clouds are there? It seems so, with this tweet picking out an article where clarification was needed between the fluffy white things in the sky and a network of remote servers.
