I ran into this little poem last night. Author unknown. I thought it rather appropriate. (Hope it transfers off this web tv ok. If not, sorry..)

I can remember life before computers. Maybe it applies to later as well:

An application was for employment. A program was a TV show. A cursor used profanity, A keyboard was a piano.

Memory was something you lost with age, A CD was a bank account. And if you had a 3 1/2 floppy, You hoped no one would find 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, a 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. 'They' say no one will be killed in the millineum crash But when it happens they'll wish they were dead.

-- Lobo (atthelair@yahoo.com), December 05, 1999

Answers

LOL! Thanks Lobo!

-- Ashton & Leska in Cascadia (allaha@earthlink.net), December 05, 1999.

Gee, I go back far enough that my first calculator was them little pointy things out at the ends of my hands.

That's what the Grey in Greybear is about.

-Greybear

-- Got an Abbacus?

-- Greybear (greybear@home.com), December 05, 1999.

Have fun with this! It's really good :-) Great to listen to!

Y WORRY 'BOUT Y2K

-- Ashton & Leska in Cascadia (allaha@earthlink.net), December 05, 1999.

And a program was a schedule for an opera or a play.

A hard drive was a long trip.

And last, but not least, Ram was a goat.

-- In the old days (revelations16@hotmail.com), December 06, 1999.

Yep, and the first desktop programmable calculator(not adding machine) had a box BIGGER than a MAXI-TOWER today, would store 16 or so instructions.

3 years later I was in school and picked up a TI 59, thought I'd gone to heaven as we didn't need a slip stick anymore.

Do YOU remember how to multiply and divide on a slide-rule??

How about a CIRCULAR slide rule??

Remember how to do trig functions on one (either traditional or circular)???

Chuck

who decided that if his hair was going to be silver it by damn was going to be LONG.

-- Chuck, a night driver (rienzoo@en.com), December 06, 1999.

Dilbert's cartoon today might just as well have been about Y2K

Link

-- John (jh@NotReal.ca), December 06, 1999.