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To: Tomato who wrote (5395)	4/27/1998 7:16:00 PM
From: stevie	Respond to of 62549

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 your girlfriend and Gig was when a band played at > 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 any thing in public you'd be in jail for > awhile. > 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! > >