A funny computer poem for people over 30...

Can you remember when?

A font head for an IBM Selectric? Looks familiar.

 Here is a fun computer poem all over the internet. I have not found the original author yet, but I did look.

Everyone is putting it on as "author unknown" but I know you're out there, author!

Anyway, here it is:

A Poem for Computer Users Over 30

Remember When...

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 night.
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.

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 meant adding wood to the fire,
Hard drive was a long trip on the road.
A mouse pad was where a mouse lived,
And a back-up 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 no one's been killed in a computer crash,
But when it happens, they wish they were dead.

-Author unknown (for now!) 

Copied by E. Sheppard

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The cool image of a font head is by Microsoft at their free clipart page site.