Years ago...
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1. An application was for employment 2. A program was a television show 3. Windows were something you hated to clean 4. A keyboard was a piano 5. Memory was something you lost with age 6. Compress was something you did to garbage 7. If you unzipped in public you went to jail 8. Log on was adding wood to a fire 9. A hard drive was a long trip on the road 10. And a backup happened to your toilet 11. Cut you did with scissors 12. Paste you did with glue 13. A web was a spider's home 14. And a virus was the flu!!! WOW , HOW TIMES HAVE CHANGED EVEYTHING!
We were soft and young, in a world of innocence...
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1. An application was for employment 2. A program was a television show 3. Windows were something you hated to clean 4. A keyboard was a piano 5. Memory was something you lost with age 6. Compress was something you did to garbage 7. If you unzipped in public you went to jail 8. Log on was adding wood to a fire 9. A hard drive was a long trip on the road 10. And a backup happened to your toilet 11. Cut you did with scissors 12. Paste you did with glue 13. A web was a spider's home 14. And a virus was the flu!!! WOW , HOW TIMES HAVE CHANGED EVEYTHING!
We were soft and young, in a world of innocence...
When I got my first programming job in 1984 and would tell people that I was a programmer, they'd generally respond "You mean like for television?" Now when I tell people that I'm a programmer, they ask "You mean like Web sites?" I miss the old days. Cheers, Tom Archer "Use what talents you possess. The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." - William Blake * Inside C# -Second Edition * Visual C++.NET Bible * Extending MFC Applications with the .NET Framework
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1. An application was for employment 2. A program was a television show 3. Windows were something you hated to clean 4. A keyboard was a piano 5. Memory was something you lost with age 6. Compress was something you did to garbage 7. If you unzipped in public you went to jail 8. Log on was adding wood to a fire 9. A hard drive was a long trip on the road 10. And a backup happened to your toilet 11. Cut you did with scissors 12. Paste you did with glue 13. A web was a spider's home 14. And a virus was the flu!!! WOW , HOW TIMES HAVE CHANGED EVEYTHING!
We were soft and young, in a world of innocence...
15. There was peace on CP land. May peace prevail. :rose:
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1. An application was for employment 2. A program was a television show 3. Windows were something you hated to clean 4. A keyboard was a piano 5. Memory was something you lost with age 6. Compress was something you did to garbage 7. If you unzipped in public you went to jail 8. Log on was adding wood to a fire 9. A hard drive was a long trip on the road 10. And a backup happened to your toilet 11. Cut you did with scissors 12. Paste you did with glue 13. A web was a spider's home 14. And a virus was the flu!!! WOW , HOW TIMES HAVE CHANGED EVEYTHING!
We were soft and young, in a world of innocence...
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1. An application was for employment 2. A program was a television show 3. Windows were something you hated to clean 4. A keyboard was a piano 5. Memory was something you lost with age 6. Compress was something you did to garbage 7. If you unzipped in public you went to jail 8. Log on was adding wood to a fire 9. A hard drive was a long trip on the road 10. And a backup happened to your toilet 11. Cut you did with scissors 12. Paste you did with glue 13. A web was a spider's home 14. And a virus was the flu!!! WOW , HOW TIMES HAVE CHANGED EVEYTHING!
We were soft and young, in a world of innocence...
m a y s a m wrote: 14. And a virus was the flu!!! And some people even now think computer viri are biological!:doh: Cheers Smitha Every problem has a gift for you in its hands. -- Richard Bach
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1. An application was for employment 2. A program was a television show 3. Windows were something you hated to clean 4. A keyboard was a piano 5. Memory was something you lost with age 6. Compress was something you did to garbage 7. If you unzipped in public you went to jail 8. Log on was adding wood to a fire 9. A hard drive was a long trip on the road 10. And a backup happened to your toilet 11. Cut you did with scissors 12. Paste you did with glue 13. A web was a spider's home 14. And a virus was the flu!!! WOW , HOW TIMES HAVE CHANGED EVEYTHING!
We were soft and young, in a world of innocence...
m a y s a m wrote: 13. A web was a spider's home And a spider was a little animal. It was sitting in the web, not crawling through it all day long. :-D
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m a y s a m wrote: 13. A web was a spider's home And a spider was a little animal. It was sitting in the web, not crawling through it all day long. :-D
:laugh::laugh::laugh: Smitha Every problem has a gift for you in its hands. -- Richard Bach
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1. An application was for employment 2. A program was a television show 3. Windows were something you hated to clean 4. A keyboard was a piano 5. Memory was something you lost with age 6. Compress was something you did to garbage 7. If you unzipped in public you went to jail 8. Log on was adding wood to a fire 9. A hard drive was a long trip on the road 10. And a backup happened to your toilet 11. Cut you did with scissors 12. Paste you did with glue 13. A web was a spider's home 14. And a virus was the flu!!! WOW , HOW TIMES HAVE CHANGED EVEYTHING!
We were soft and young, in a world of innocence...
What about the mouse :)
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1. An application was for employment 2. A program was a television show 3. Windows were something you hated to clean 4. A keyboard was a piano 5. Memory was something you lost with age 6. Compress was something you did to garbage 7. If you unzipped in public you went to jail 8. Log on was adding wood to a fire 9. A hard drive was a long trip on the road 10. And a backup happened to your toilet 11. Cut you did with scissors 12. Paste you did with glue 13. A web was a spider's home 14. And a virus was the flu!!! WOW , HOW TIMES HAVE CHANGED EVEYTHING!
We were soft and young, in a world of innocence...
... And ram was the cousin of a goat. :) Rado
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When I got my first programming job in 1984 and would tell people that I was a programmer, they'd generally respond "You mean like for television?" Now when I tell people that I'm a programmer, they ask "You mean like Web sites?" I miss the old days. Cheers, Tom Archer "Use what talents you possess. The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." - William Blake * Inside C# -Second Edition * Visual C++.NET Bible * Extending MFC Applications with the .NET Framework
Tom Archer wrote: I miss the old days. Yeah. FORTRAN, Hollerith cards, overnight batch jobs on time-shared systems. I miss those a lot. ;P I can't express verbally how much I miss ALGOL and COBOL. The joy of building apps on those systems can only be equated to having a root canal job. Having an appendectomy without the benefit of anesthetics is a reasonable facsimile. "My kid was Inmate of the Month at Adobe Mountain Juvenile Corrections Center" - Bumper Sticker in Bullhead City
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Tom Archer wrote: I miss the old days. Yeah. FORTRAN, Hollerith cards, overnight batch jobs on time-shared systems. I miss those a lot. ;P I can't express verbally how much I miss ALGOL and COBOL. The joy of building apps on those systems can only be equated to having a root canal job. Having an appendectomy without the benefit of anesthetics is a reasonable facsimile. "My kid was Inmate of the Month at Adobe Mountain Juvenile Corrections Center" - Bumper Sticker in Bullhead City
I didn't figure anyone got my joke :sigh: :) What I meant was that I'd rather people completely not understand our profession (thinking that programmers were people that decide what get's shown on tv) to people thinking that all programmers are HTML/Web page monkeys. In other words, I don't miss our part of the old days, just the old-days perceptions when after explaining what we do, people would respond "Wow! You must be really smart!" Now they're like "Oh :( You're a programmer. So you made Web sites and stuff, huh? Yeah, my cousin does that." Cheers, Tom Archer "Use what talents you possess. The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." - William Blake * Inside C# -Second Edition * Visual C++.NET Bible * Extending MFC Applications with the .NET Framework
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I didn't figure anyone got my joke :sigh: :) What I meant was that I'd rather people completely not understand our profession (thinking that programmers were people that decide what get's shown on tv) to people thinking that all programmers are HTML/Web page monkeys. In other words, I don't miss our part of the old days, just the old-days perceptions when after explaining what we do, people would respond "Wow! You must be really smart!" Now they're like "Oh :( You're a programmer. So you made Web sites and stuff, huh? Yeah, my cousin does that." Cheers, Tom Archer "Use what talents you possess. The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." - William Blake * Inside C# -Second Edition * Visual C++.NET Bible * Extending MFC Applications with the .NET Framework
Tom Archer wrote: I'd rather people completely not understand our profession I just consider the source and ignore them. I've had people ask, when I mentioned that I'm an engineer, "What train company did you work for?" :sigh: I could wish that people might understand our professions, in all the technical fields, but it isn't going to happen. There are two reasons we techie types pursue it; we love it, and we're capable of understanding it. Fewer than 5% of the population are capable of learning what we do, and fewer still are interested. Those who could never hopr to learn it will never appreciate what we do, and will seek to oversimplify it in their own minds. The only change I see that I'd like to reverse is that, in the "old" days people respected us - they knew that what we do is terribly difficult (no need to rub their noses in the fact that it's easy for us), and looked on us as wizards of a sort. Now they take us for granted and assume that all we do is equivalent to banging out a few pages of HTML. Nifty tools like VB.Net in the hands of amateurs will only strengthen that impression as more and more non-technical people gain the ability to work minor miracles without our assistance. "My kid was Inmate of the Month at Adobe Mountain Juvenile Corrections Center" - Bumper Sticker in Bullhead City
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Tom Archer wrote: I'd rather people completely not understand our profession I just consider the source and ignore them. I've had people ask, when I mentioned that I'm an engineer, "What train company did you work for?" :sigh: I could wish that people might understand our professions, in all the technical fields, but it isn't going to happen. There are two reasons we techie types pursue it; we love it, and we're capable of understanding it. Fewer than 5% of the population are capable of learning what we do, and fewer still are interested. Those who could never hopr to learn it will never appreciate what we do, and will seek to oversimplify it in their own minds. The only change I see that I'd like to reverse is that, in the "old" days people respected us - they knew that what we do is terribly difficult (no need to rub their noses in the fact that it's easy for us), and looked on us as wizards of a sort. Now they take us for granted and assume that all we do is equivalent to banging out a few pages of HTML. Nifty tools like VB.Net in the hands of amateurs will only strengthen that impression as more and more non-technical people gain the ability to work minor miracles without our assistance. "My kid was Inmate of the Month at Adobe Mountain Juvenile Corrections Center" - Bumper Sticker in Bullhead City
Roger Wright wrote: The only change I see that I'd like to reverse is that, in the "old" days people respected us - they knew that what we do is terribly difficult and looked on us as wizards of a sort. ... They take us for granted and assume that all we do is equivalent to banging out a few pages of HTML. Nifty tools like VB.Net in the hands of amateurs will only strengthen that impression as more and more non-technical people gain the ability to work minor miracles Exactly. This was the bit I was lamenting. Cheers, Tom Archer "Use what talents you possess. The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." - William Blake * Inside C# -Second Edition * Visual C++.NET Bible * Extending MFC Applications with the .NET Framework