LIFE BEFORE COMPUTERS

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gardendragon Ladysmith, BC(Zone 8a) Jul 21, 2001

LIFE BEFORE COMPUTERS

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 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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poppysue Westbrook, ME(Zone 5a) Jul 21, 2001

LOL!! So true! Remember when you thought you'd never own a computer!

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mikepiper Circleville, OH(Zone 8b) Jul 21, 2001

Yes I thought I would never use one, WWW I never use that either. Now look at me on the @#$% thing every day.
If I didn't have mine now I would just be lost.
Mike

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Carol7 Surry, VA(Zone 7b) Jul 21, 2001

How funny, but sadly true! Thanks for sharing this.

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gardendragon Ladysmith, BC(Zone 8a) Jul 21, 2001

I can even remember when you went to the bank you had to take your 'pass book' with you to have it updated by hand, in pen & ink!

Also way back when, we (women) were not allowed to get anything on credit without a male co-signing. I had to get my then beloved husband to co-sign (finance is that where the term came from?) for me to buy a sewing machine (Singer) it is now 39 years old and I am still sewing with it???

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talon5 Jul 21, 2001

I have a friend who STILL has passbook savings accounts. He grew up during the Depression, and I guess it makes him feel better, to be able to "see" the deposits and balances??

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