In the good old times ... (fwd)

[Stewart Heckenberg]

>Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 00:24:11 +1100 (EST)
>From: Stewart Heckenberg <shecken at cs.newcastle.edu.au>
>Subject: In the good old times ... (fwd)
>To: Stewart Heckenberg <c9707010 at frost.newcastle.edu.au>
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>---------- Forwarded message ----------
>Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 15:21:46 +1100 (EST)
>From: Carsten Friedrich <friedric at cs.newcastle.edu.au>
>To: staff at frost.newcastle.edu.au, postgrad at frost.newcastle.edu.au
>Subject: In the good old times ...
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>a computer was something on tv
>from a science fiction shop of note
>a window was something you had to clean
>and ram was male cousin of a goat
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>Meg was the name of my aunt
>and gig was a job for the nights
>now they all mean different things
>and that really mega bytes
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>application was for employment
>programme was a tv show
>a cursor used profanity
>a keyboard was on the piano
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>memory was something you lost with age
>CD was a bank account
>and if someone had a 3 inch floppy
>they hoped nobody found out
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>compress was what you did to the garbage
>not something you did to a file
>and if someone unzipped in public
>they'd be in the slammer a while
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>log on was adding wood to a fire
>hard drive was a long tip on the road
>a mouse pad was where a mouse lived
>and they backed up to deliver their load
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>cut you did with a knife
>paste you did with glue
>a web was a spider's home
>and a virus was the flu
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>it's tempting to stick with pen and paper
>and what memory's left 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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