You know when you were a kid, and your parents and grandparents said such astounding things as “That was 20 years ago already!” And how your jaw dropped, and your eyes grew to the size of dessert plates, and a truly awestruck “w-o-w” breathed across your lips? Because you couldn’t fathom how very old human beings must have to be just in order to remember something that actually happened 20 years ago?
Well, I’ve now joined that august band of the aging if this pre-Twitter list of technology-based nostalgia counts for anything. If you, too, have reached that mature stage of life where you remember a time before 140 characters and an “enter” key could share the contents of your breakfast with the entire globe, please feel free to join me for a moment of remembrance:
- Memory was something you lost with age
- An application was for employment
- A program was a TV show
- A cursor was one who used profanity
- A keyboard was a piano
- A web was a spider’s home
- A virus was the flu
- A CD was a bank account
- A hard drive was a long trip home
- A mouse pad was where a mouse lived
- Compress was something you did to garbage, not something you did to a file
- Log on was adding wood to a fire
- A backup happened to your commode
