What Terminology Meant Before Computers

[Gauracandra 1]

I found this on the bulletin board at work

 

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

Compress was something you did to 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 a 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 pad 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!

[Tarun 6]

Along similar lines, www linked:

I heard this one on Malaysian radio 4 yrs ago.

I think I mentioned it on VNN Forums.

This one can also be adjoined to various neighboring he/she threads.

For those of you who missed it:

How do you know computers are female?

3 undeniable symptoms sustain:

1) They speak a language only other computers can understand.

2) They recall details long after you've forgotten them that can surely be used against you.

3) Just after you've $committed$ hard earned $cash$ to one, a better, more attractive, updated model becomes available.

So don't fault sannyAsis for appearing to be married to their laptops.

Grhasthas neither. Things could be worse.

Then again...