Life Before Computers
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An application was for employment,

A program was a TV show,

A cursor used profanity,

And 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 ½ inch floppy,

You hoped nobody found out!

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 awhile!

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 then a spider's home,

And a virus was the flu!

I think I'll just stick to 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!

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