Do you remember...

[carl6969]

Do you remember when...

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 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 might be in jail for awhile

Log on was adding wood to the fire
Hard drive was a long trip down the road
A mouse pad was where the mouse lived
And a backup happened to your commode

Cut you did with with a pocket knife
Paste you did with glue
A web was a spider's home
And a virus was the flu

 

[ChatIndia]

WOW, nice one.

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how old are you? are you reminiscing those days with this poem?? Joking, I hope that you would not mind.

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hey, I googled for the full poem, and now I got the last stanza.

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

 

[carl6969]

Yep. I have been around for a few years and so has the poem.
Ran across it looking for some completely unrelated information and decided it might be fun to post it here.
I am old enough to remember things like punched cards, entire floors of office buildings filled with tape drives and tape libraries, monochrome monitors, dot matrix printers, and 300 BPS modems.
I also remember when "phishing" (fishing) was a way to relax on Saturday morning.

 

[callumacrae]

I like the unzip line

~Callum

 

[ChatIndia]

"And if you unzipped anything in public
You might be in jail for awhile"

but why?

does anything mean anyone or anybody?

 

[leafypiggy]

snshusat: The poem's referring to unzipping your pants.

 

[callumacrae]

Just pointing out to anyone who learned english english, it's referring to trousers

~Callum

 

[carl6969]

trousers [ˈtraʊzəz]
pl n
1. (Clothing & Fashion) a garment shaped to cover the body from the waist to the ankles or knees with separate tube-shaped sections for both legs
trousered adj
trouserless adj

Pantalones
Pantalon

 

[callumacrae]

Yes

Pants (american) = underpants (english)

It gets embarrassing when they get confused

~Callum

 

[ChatIndia]

Now I'm very confused.

In India (brit english, I think), Pants = trousers
american english pants = knickers

Please tell me that whether it is correct or not?

 

[carl6969]

Well, in the Great State of Texas where I live, we speak a language which is primarily American English, (modified slightly with our Texas dialect), but, nonetheless, American English.

Around here we almost always use the term "pants" when referring to
"a garment shaped to cover the body from the waist to the ankles or knees with separate tube-shaped sections for both legs"
The term "pants" is frequently synonymous with "jeans" around here.
Few people actually use the term "trousers" but it actually means the same thing as "pants".

The only time I have ever heard anybody use the term "knickers" was on a BBC television show, (obviously from Great Britain), but I believe the term refers to "pants".
Perhaps Alex Mac can enlighten us on this.

 

[Isla]

Hello there. The poem was very interesting and enjoyed a lot. But I wonder why the discussion is going out of track





If I could sell my car I will help to sell your car.

 

[callumacrae]

From my british english dictionary:

Pants (plural, noun)
A piece of underwear with holes for your legs and elastic around the waist or hips

~Callum