Once upon a time...not very long ago

It's amazing how as a society we have become so dependent on computers. We do our work and school on them, balance our finances, search for shopping and phone numbers, stay in contact with friends and family, store our digital photos and our entire music collection, play games and many other things. Just a very short time ago really, computers were not a common household thing. They were a mere dream on a science fiction show or a clunky machine that you rarely found in large office buildings. The computer was for work only. Now we use computers as a part of our everyday life. (I can't wait until I get my computer back. A friend is replacing parts for me and reinstalling the operating system. A borrowed computer is great, but I miss my own computer)

Once upon a time...not very long ago

A Computer was something on TV from a science fiction show.

Windows were something you hated to clean

Ram was the cousin of a goat.

Meg was the name of a girl.

Gig was something a band played at.

An application was for employment.

A program was a TV show.

A cursor used profanity.

A keyboard was a portable piano.

Memory was something that you needed for tests at school.

A CD was a bank account.

A disc was something in your back.

Compress was something you did to the garbage not something you did to a file.

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.

A backup happened to your septic system.

Cut, you did with a pocket knife.

Paste, you did with glue.

A web was a spider's home.

A virus was the flu.