Ode to the Computer Age
Posted by: JesterA computer was something on TV
From a science Fiction Show
A window was something you had to clean….
And RAM was the cousin of a goat…..
Meg was the name of a girl
And Gig was something you did on stage for money
Now they all mean different things
And that really 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 1/2" 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 awhile.
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 pad and paper,
And the memory in my head.
Nobody’s been killed in a computer crash
But when it happens, they wish they were dead.
