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Just 10 Years Ago .....

(before the "computer age")

An application was for employment

Paper application and pen

A program was a television show
television set

Windows were something you hated to clean,
windows

A keyboard was a piano
piano

A cursor used profanity

symbols

Memory was something you lost with age
finger with string tied around it

A CD was a bank account
a cd-rom

Compress was something you did to garbage
full garbage can

Log on was adding wood to a fire
fire in fireplace

A hard drive was a long trip on the road

moving car

A mouse pad was where a mouse lived
a computer mouse and pad

And a backup happened to your toilet
dog plunging a toilet

Cut you did with scissors
moving scissors

Paste you did with glue

rubber cement

A web was a spider's home

spider dropping from web

And a virus was the flu!!!

sick man

WOW, HOW TIMES HAVE CHANGED!


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