The World of Grandpa Don

For folks over 40...

A Computer was something on TV 
From a Science Fiction show of note ...

A Window was something you hated to clean 
And Ram was the father of a goat. 
Meg was the name of my girlfriend 
And Gig was a job for the nights.
Now they all mean different things 
And that really Mega Bytes. 

An Application was for employment.
A Program was a TV show. 
A Cursor used profanity. 
A Keyboard was a piano. 

A Memory was something that you lost with age.
A CD was a bank account.
And if you had a 3-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'd be in jail for a while. 

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 
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. 

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.