BEFORE COMPUTERS…
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 a floppy disk was something
Terribly wrong in your back.
Compress was something you did to garbage,
Not something you did to a file.
And if you unzipped anything in public,
You’d be in jail for awhile!
Log on was adding wood to a 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!
PS: I’ve no idea what the line italic was supposed to read. Sorry, I’m not intelligent enough to come up with a poem as good as this!
CD……….. bank? I know COD (cash on delivery, not a fish), a cad is other peoples’ friends (not mine), El Cid is a movie, cud a bovine term worth chewing on. Ced is absolutely nothing (except expanded to Co-ed).
The poem does reinforce though just how much language changes with the times.