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Location: Netherlands
Registered: April 2002
Messages: 81
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A POEM FOR COMPUTER USERS OVER 60
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 father of a goat.
Meg was the name of my girlfriend
And a 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.
A Memory was something that you lost with age
A CD was a bank account
And if you had a 3-in. 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 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.
Author unknown
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On fire! |
Location: currently So Cal
Registered: May 2002
Messages: 1179
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On fire! |
Registered: March 2012
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That's really funny......and I'm a few years short.
Two lines made me choke on my Dr.Pepper  My
mom says I was born with a keyboard attached.Thanks
for sharing it with me.
Here's an addition from the other side:
Signs You Live in 2002
*You just tried to enter your password in the microwave.
*You called your friend's beeper to say it was time
for dinner and he's in the next room.
*You chat several times a day with a good friend you've
never seen on another continent, but you haven't spoken
to your next door neighbor yet this year.
*Your grandmother asks you to send her a JPEG file of
your family so she can create a screensaver.
*You pull up in the driveway and use your cellphone
to check to see if anyone's home.
*Realizing you don't have your cellphone is a cause
for panic making you exceptionally late for work.
*Cleaning the table means getting the fast food wrappers
out of the back seat.
*You hear all your jokes via e-mail and if you try to
tell them outloud, they make no sense.
*You're reading this.
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I got a friend that in the eighties and early nineties belonged firmly lodged in the top echelons of the upper middle class income bracket. They went to Florida once every year, they built a covered swimming pool as an extension to their house, etc (in this country, private pools are quite rare).
My friend had his own phone line installed. Actually, two phone lines. One he used to run his BBS off of, and the other for voice calls. It was not unheard of for his mom to call from downstairs to tell him to come down to eat.
He's a self-employed web designer these days, and met his girlfriend over the internet.
Heh heh!
-Lenny
PS: Anyone want to chat via MSNM or something sometime, email me please and we'll exchange details... I'm bored as hell!
"But he that hath the steerage of my course,
direct my sail."
-William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act One, Scene IV
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Registered: March 2012
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LMAO....I TOTALLY LOVE THE LAST ONE
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mihangel
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Likes it here |
Location: UK
Registered: July 2002
Messages: 192
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to one who's still geriatrically struggling through the 20th century. The 21st will probably stay beyond my reach
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