Ellen Feiss (born 1987) is an United States high school student who became an Internet phenomenon after her 2002 television Television commercial for Apple Computer s Apple Switch ad campaign grew into a cult hit among Mac OS aficionados. In the commercial, the then-15-year-old Feiss complains that her father s Microsoft Windows Personal computer was like, bleep bleepbeepbeep and then devoured her school paper, which she then had to rewrite quickly, which was a bummer.

The incedient she describes in the commercial is thought to be an operating system crash which prevented the keyboard buffer from being read, causing it to fill up. The BIOS on such computers will often cause the motherboard s speaker to beep with every KeyStroke when the keyboard buffer is full.

Fueling the popularity of the advertisement was her attractiveness and the speculation that Feiss was under the influence of . That, plus exhaustion (apparently her ad was filmed near midnight) allegedly produced the druggie behaviour.

Feiss popularity grew to the point where she was offered appearances on both David Letterman s and Jay Leno s late night shows, both of which she turned down.

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