Muddy Paws's blog: "Life before computers"

A Poem by an Old Timer 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 my girlfriend 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, A CD was a bank account And if you had a 3 " floppy You hoped nobody found out 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'll wish they were dead! Life Before the Computer Memory was something you lost with age An application was for employment A program was a TV show A cursor used profanity A keyboard was a piano A web was a spider's home A virus was the flu A CD was a bank account A hard drive was a long trip on the road A mouse pad was where a mouse lived And if you had a 3 inch floppy .. ... you just hoped nobody ever found out!! Computers Compared To Humans *What is a computer's first sign of old age? Loss of memory. *What does a baby computer call his father? Data. *What is an astronaut's favorite key on a computer key-board? The space bar. *What happened when the computer fell on the floor? It slipped a disk. *Why was there a bug in the computer? It was looking for a byte to eat. *What is a computer virus? A terminal illness. *To err is human; but to really mess things up requires a computer. *Computers are not intelligent. They only think they are. *Computers make very fast, very accurate mistakes. *My computer isn't that nervous. It's just a bit ANSI. *The attention span of a computer is as long as its electrical cord.