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A Poem by an "Old Timer"

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 nights
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

Memory was something you lost with age
A CD was a bank account
And if you had a 3.5" 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 pen 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!