Do you remember...

[carl6969]

Do you remember when...

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 1/2 inch 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 might be in jail for awhile

Log on was adding wood to the fire
Hard drive was a long trip down the road
A mouse pad was where the mouse lived
And a backup happened to your commode

Cut you did with with a pocket knife
Paste you did with glue
A web was a spider's home
And a virus was the flu

[ChatIndia]

WOW, nice one.

---------- Post added at 05:38 PM ---------- Previous post was at 05:36 PM ----------

how old are you? are you reminiscing those days with this poem?? Joking, I hope that you would not mind.

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hey, I googled for the full poem, and now I got the last stanza.

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

[carl6969]

Yep. I have been around for a few years and so has the poem.
Ran across it looking for some completely unrelated information and decided it might be fun to post it here.
I am old enough to remember things like punched cards, entire floors of office buildings filled with tape drives and tape libraries, monochrome monitors, dot matrix printers, and 300 BPS modems.
I also remember when "phishing" (fishing) was a way to relax on Saturday morning.

[callumacrae]

I like the unzip line :D

~Callum

[ChatIndia]

"And if you unzipped anything in public
You might be in jail for awhile"

but why? :D

does anything mean anyone or anybody? :P

[leafypiggy]

snshusat: The poem's referring to unzipping your pants.

[callumacrae]

Just pointing out to anyone who learned english english, it's referring to trousers

~Callum

[carl6969]

trousers [ˈtraʊzəz]
pl n
1. (Clothing & Fashion) a garment shaped to cover the body from the waist to the ankles or knees with separate tube-shaped sections for both legs
trousered adj
trouserless adj

Pantalones
Pantalon

[callumacrae]

Yes

Pants (american) = underpants (english)

It gets embarrassing when they get confused

~Callum

[ChatIndia]

Now I'm very confused.

In India (brit english, I think), Pants = trousers
american english pants = knickers

Please tell me that whether it is correct or not?