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#1 2005-07-02 20:36:15
- Jai Ganesh
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The computer era
Before the computer age,
An APPLICATION was for employment.
A PROGRAMME was a television show.
WINDOWS were something you hated to clean.
A KEYBOARD was a piano.
MEMORY was something you lost with age.
A CD was a bank account.
COMPRESS was something you did to garbage.
LOG ON was adding wood to a fire.
A HARD DRIVE was a long trip on the road.
A MOUSE PAD was where a mouse lived.
CUT you did with scissors.
PASTE you did with glue.
A WEB was a spider's home.
And a VIRUS was a flu!
It appears to me that if one wants to make progress in mathematics, one should study the masters and not the pupils. - Niels Henrik Abel.
Nothing is better than reading and gaining more and more knowledge - Stephen William Hawking.
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#2 2005-07-02 21:45:05
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Re: The computer era
LOL !!
HOME was were the heart was
ZOOM was to go really fast
DRAG and DROP was how you moved an unconscious person
"The physicists defer only to mathematicians, and the mathematicians defer only to God ..." - Leon M. Lederman
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#3 2005-07-02 21:46:32
- justlookingforthemoment
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#4 2005-07-03 00:32:46
- Roraborealis
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Re: The computer era
LOL, that is very cool!
School is practice for the future. Practice makes perfect. But - nobody's perfect, so why practice?
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#5 2005-07-04 04:27:55
- Mr T
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Re: The computer era
Like you!!!
I come back stronger than a powered-up Pac-Man 
I bought a large popcorn @ the cinema the other day, it was pretty big...some might even say it was "large
Fatboy Slim is a Legend
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#6 2005-07-04 04:32:16
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Re: The computer era
School is practice for the future. Practice makes perfect. But - nobody's perfect, so why practice?
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#7 2005-07-05 05:34:31
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Re: The computer era
Thats it, im leaving here 4 good. Its been nice knowing y'all but its time for this tumbleweed to tumble on home. Bubye
HAPPY HAPPY, JOY JOY Fatboy Slim is the band of the 90s, thats if you want to call it a band because its really a one man name
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#8 2005-07-05 05:37:49
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If ye speak truths, fare thee well.
School is practice for the future. Practice makes perfect. But - nobody's perfect, so why practice?
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#9 2005-07-05 05:39:22
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Re: The computer era
HAPPY HAPPY, JOY JOY Fatboy Slim is the band of the 90s, thats if you want to call it a band because its really a one man name
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#10 2005-07-05 05:41:37
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ur still online. if ur gonna leave then u need a big exit.
I come back stronger than a powered-up Pac-Man
I bought a large popcorn @ the cinema the other day, it was pretty big...some might even say it was "large Fatboy Slim is a Legend
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#11 2005-07-05 10:27:06
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Re: The computer era
Super T?
"The physicists defer only to mathematicians, and the mathematicians defer only to God ..." - Leon M. Lederman
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#12 2009-05-13 12:12:25
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Re: The computer era
and click is...uh....i forget >.> i t was something
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#13 2009-05-14 06:41:44
- scapeplan
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and a mouse was an animal 
duh
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#14 2009-05-14 06:43:12
- scapeplan
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and shift was to change (sorry for triple post)
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#15 2009-05-14 08:27:42
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Click is a children's magazine here in the US.
I'll be here at least once every decade.
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#16 2009-05-14 20:50:13
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RAM was something you did to the other guys boat
BOOT was a shoe or a kick
MEGABYTES was what happened when you fell into a lake full of piranhas
(thanks for the spelling quittyqat)
STACK was something that emitted smoke
NAMESPACE was that area at the bottom of your IRS form
GARBAGE COLLECTION was something that happened on Tuesday and Thursday
TOWER was a place you kept people who disagreed with you
Last edited by bobbym (2009-05-15 13:11:52)
In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.
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#17 2009-05-15 07:49:50
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It's piranhas, not pirhanas.
Site was where you build.
Yahoo! was an exclamation.
I'll be here at least once every decade.
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#18 2009-05-15 12:52:15
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Re: The computer era
google was a number ( and google's hq is called google-plex which is also a number)
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#19 2009-05-15 16:51:54
- JaneFairfax
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E-MAIL was something a Yorkshireman would say when the postman came.
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#20 2009-05-15 18:27:42
- bobbym
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MENU was something that made you gain weight
BUS was something Ralph Kramden drove.
MONITOR was a big lizard
CRACKER was something you spread cheese on
HACKER was someone chasing you with a machete
BROWSER was someone who was just looking
BUG was something you squished
CLOCK SPEED was the same for everyone
MOZILLA something that fought Godzilla?
Last edited by bobbym (2009-05-15 18:30:48)
In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.
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#21 2009-05-16 04:27:04
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Re: The computer era
Recycling Bin was where you put old paper.
A link was part of a chain.
Trojan Horse was what was used to invade Troy.
Last edited by quittyqat (2009-05-16 04:28:07)
I'll be here at least once every decade.
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