Simulacrum's blog: "Times Have Changed..."

Times Have Changed…

  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 that you lost with age

          a cd was a  bank account

          And if you had a 3 1/2" 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 awhile.

          Log 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.