Ode to a the computer

[Ishmael]

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 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-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 unkown

 

[Suzi]

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...

I have not read that one....thanks for putting it up! Funny...and yet...pathetic too!

 

[PumpkinSmasher]

People shouldn't write poems or odes when they are asleep.

 

[DannyBoyUK]

Until I read that "author unknown" I was about to say congratulations, Ish

Instead I shall just say thank-you