Memory was something you lost with age.
An application was for employment.
A program was a TV show.
A cursor used profanity.
A keyboard was a piano.
A web was a spider's home.
A virus was the flu.
A CD was a bank account.
A hard drive was a long trip on the road.
A mouse pad was where a mouse lived.
And if you had a 3 inch floppy. . . You just hoped nobody ever found out!
Remeber those simple days? The times, they are a changing.
17 comments:
Not to put a damper on the good humor .. but that was a 3.5" floppy. Of course, yours may be only 3.
At this point, it has been so long that even a 3 inch floppy would work for me.
(oh and I hate you for having me type those letters in that little box. This is try number three...it hardly seems worth it for a bad joke) :-(
I think I'll go back to the good 'ol days of the pencil. Not quite so frustrating!
My first job was in a real estate office where it was my responsibility to type the contracts - several legal size forms with a carbon paper between each one. One typo and all was dashed. I don't want to go back to those days!
Wow. I remember all of that.
e.craig, three inches of floppy grows into three and a half inches hard drive.
Christine, I hate the letter verification, too, but I hate the spam more. You reminded me of my honeymoon. Sweet Tea kept saying, “Give me 12 inches and make it hurt.” So I screwed her twice and hit her in the head with a shoe.
Olly, it was a simpler time – unless you had to type a term-paper or thesis.
Gawilli, I know. I had to type an ops manual onto carbon paper when I was in the Navy. Going back and trying to realign a sentence when a mistake was found was the epitome of frustration.
RWA, we are all aging and the things we remember like it was yesterday are being taught in history class in school.
I like the big, fat, Kindergarten-sized 1st generation of computers, meself.
I always run out of erasure before lead.
I prefer backspace. I'm a modern woman. snort.
I still write and mail letters and cards. I think it's a dying art, and everyone loves something other than bills in the mail.
Interface was a fabric stiffener
but would we have it all back? oh no not me, hate those 3 inch floopy's!!!!!!!!!
Kids today who turn in school papers have no clue as to what it took to create a perfect paper with a mechanical typewriter.
I did that before there was white correction fluid.
Arrghhh!
I take my floppies however I get 'em!
LOL at e.craig and grizzbabe!
Sometimes I miss my simple life of only owning a chair, a mattress, and an end table.
Of course, we still had two computers. :)
LMAOL...great one!
Coffeypot? You OK? Not like you to be gone so long...
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