Ah, remember when ...

A computer was something on TV
from a science fiction show,
a window was something you hated to clean,
and ram was the cousin of a goat.

Meg was the name of my girlfriend,
and gig was a job for the night.
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.

Memory was something that you lost with age,
a CD was a bank account,
and if you had a 3-1/2" 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 toilet.

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.