- Tech Support Comedy
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caption=TSC front page as viewed inMozilla Firefox 2.0 inMicrosoft Windows XP
commercial=No
type=Humor, Message Boards, Online virtual community
owner=Hawk
author=Hawk
url=http://www.techcomedy.com/Tech Support Comedy, or TSC, is a website featuring the relationship between
tech support workers and their customers. It was created by member Hawk, an ex-tech support worker, in March 2000, originally as a web comic. It grew into a bulletin board for reader submissions and added the ability for members to comment on the submissions. Since then the site has grown in both membership and content, with over 10,000 members and more than 60,000 story submissions. TSC is currently the largest online community of IT workers found anywhere on the webfact|date=June 2008Submission categoried to TSC include Tech Stories, Customer Misconceptions, Tech Support Rules, Customer Types, Co-worker Types, Customer E-mails, End User Phrase of the Day (EUPOTD), Tech Songs, Cool Links, SoapBox, and Tech Calls, where actual calls to tech support can be heard. Also, an
IRC chatroom exists: channel [irc://irc.nightstar.net:6666/#TSC #TSC] on the Nightstar IRC network. Membership in the IRC channel is restricted to site members.External links
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*cite web |url=http://review.zdnet.com/AnchorDesk/4520-6033_16-4206699.html |title=Who's got the best horror stories? Tech support folks! |accessdate=2007-02-26 |author=C.C. Holland |authorlink= |coauthors= |date= |format= |work=ZDNet |publisher= |pages= |language= |archiveurl= |archivedate= |quote=
*cite web |url=http://www.theleadingarticles.com/aid2858/Tech-Support-Comedy.html |title=Tech Support Commedy |accessdate=2007-02-26 |author=Allyson Brandy |authorlink= |coauthors= |date= |format= |work=The Leading Articles |publisher= |pages= |language= |archiveurl= |archivedate= |quote=
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