Sunday, December 04, 2005

In the 1960's


A computer was something on TV
From a science fiction show of note.
A window was something you hated to clean....
And ram was the cousin of a goat.

Meg was the name of a girl
And gig was a job for the nights
Now they all mean different things
And that really mega bytes

An application was for employment
A program was a TV show
A cursor used profanity
A keyboard was a piano

Memory was something that you lost with age
And CD was a bank account
Mac was the guy in the local diner
And a mouse a rodent with a snout

Compress was something you did to the garbage
Not something you did to a file
And if you unzipped anything in public
You'd be in jail for a while

Log on was adding wood to the fire
Hard drive was a long trip on the road
A mouse pad was where a mouse lived
And a backup happened to your commode

Cut you did with a pocket knife
Paste you did with glue
A web was a spider's home
And a virus was the flu

I guess I'll stick to my pen and paper
And the memory in my head
I hear nobody's been killed in a computer crash
But when it happens they wish they were dead!

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