Were you born before 1970 ? ... do you remember ‘the good old days’ ?.

Webs were for spiders, and websites were spots you avoided walking in your garden. Surfing required water, nets were for fishermen, and a megabyte was what you took when you were really hungry.

A hard drive was a difficult car trip, a download meant a truck had turned over, and a virus was something you went to the doctor for. Wallpaper went on walls, blinds stopped the neighbours peeking in, and windows were things you looked out of.

Networks were for marketing executives, ‘a bit’ was slang for foreplay, and bandwidth meant overweight musicians. A mouse was the last thing you’d want on your desk, and a boot belonged on your foot.

A crawler was an undesirable sycophant, engines ran cars, icons were movie stars, and logs were dead trees. A browser was an aimless shopper, patches went on clothing, and hosts served canapés.

Spam was eaten, crashes involved vehicles, and servers attended you in restaurants. Saving was getting a cash discount, exiting meant leaving, and monitor meant 'keep an eye on'.

Graphic was 'vivid', 56k was a wad of cash, and an active desktop meant having to do overtime. Agents sold houses, links made jewellery, Beta was dodgy pre-VHS video, and bouncing was something balls did.

Drivers had vehicles, dumps held trash, frames sat on mantlepieces, kernels were corn, registries married people, ports had ships in them, and worms lived in the garden.

Ah yes ... how well I remember

Copyright 2004 Mignuna