What have we changed by inventing computers?

What if the computers were never invented? We would still mean…

LOG ON

LogOn

Making a wood stove hot

LOG OFFLogOffToo much wood on fire
MONITORMonitor
Keeping an eye on the wood stove
DOWNLOADDownload

Getting the firewood off the truck

MEGA HERTZMegahertz

When yer not keerfull gitten the farwood

FLOPPY DISCFloppyDisc

Whatcha git from tryin to tote too much farwood

RAMRAM

That thar thang what splits the farwood

HARD DRIVEHardDrive

Getting home in the winter time

WINDOWSWindows

What to shut when its cold outside

SCREENScreen

What to shut when its black fly season

BYTEByte

What flys do

CHIPChip

It is a bat of snack

MICRO CHIPMicro-Chip
What’s in the bottom of the chips bag
MODEMModem

What you do you the lawns.

DOT MATRIXDotMatrix

Ole Dan Matrix’s wife

LAP TOPLapTop

Where the cat sleeps

KEYBOARDKeyboard

Where you hang the truck keys

SOFTWARESoftware

Plastic forks and knifes

MOUSEMouse

What eats the grain in the shed.

MOUSE PADMousepad

That’s hippie talk fer where the mouse lives

MAINFRAMEMainframe

What holds the shed up

PORT

Port

Fancy flatlander wine

ENTEREnter

Notherner talk fer “C’Mon in y’all”

CLICKClick

What you hear when you click your gun

DOUBLE CLICKDouble-Click

When you click the double barrel

REBOOTReboot

What you have to do right before bedtime
when you have to go to the rest room

These are really interesting explantions for computer related terms.

Source : www.haukenfrers.net

Note: Few explanations could not be translated from Uzbek language.


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  1. Afrin Khan
    January 18th, 2010 at 19:32 | #1

    Hey Vijay Great Thoughts!!
    Really interesting as computer shortened man’s hardwork(khoon pasina). Apart from Software Engineers. (:P)

  2. January 25th, 2010 at 13:05 | #2

    LOL. Nice one.

  3. January 26th, 2010 at 14:41 | #3

    I wonder what we would call “CPU”

  4. TechShankar
    February 4th, 2010 at 19:20 | #4

    Cool Yaar. Gr8

  5. May 6th, 2011 at 20:27 | #5

    LoL :D but we are not the ones who changed these terms we are using it

  6. Rob
    May 8th, 2011 at 02:58 | #6

    Double click is sweet. Of course, not if directed towards me!

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