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 OFF

LogOffToo much wood on fire

MONITOR

Monitor

Keeping an eye on the wood stove

DOWNLOAD

Download

Getting the firewood off the truck

MEGA HERTZ

Megahertz

When yer not keerfull gitten the farwood

FLOPPY DISC

FloppyDisc

Whatcha git from tryin to tote too much farwood

RAM

RAM

That thar thang what splits the farwood

HARD DRIVE

HardDrive

Getting home in the winter time

WINDOWS

Windows

What to shut when its cold outside

SCREEN

Screen

What to shut when its black fly season

BYTE

Byte

What flys do

CHIP

Chip

It is a bat of snack

MICRO CHIP

Micro-Chip

What’s in the bottom of the chips bag

MODEM

Modem

What you do you the lawns.

DOT MATRIX

DotMatrix

Ole Dan Matrix’s wife

LAP TOP

LapTop

Where the cat sleeps

KEYBOARD

Keyboard

Where you hang the truck keys

SOFTWARE

Software

Plastic forks and knifes

MOUSE

Mouse

What eats the grain in the shed.

MOUSE PAD

Mousepad

That’s hippie talk fer where the mouse lives

MAINFRAME

Mainframe

What holds the shed up

PORT

Port

Fancy flatlander wine

ENTER

Enter

Notherner talk fer “C’Mon in y’all”

CLICK

Click

What you hear when you click your gun

DOUBLE CLICK

Double-Click

When you click the double barrel

REBOOT

Reboot

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

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

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