Reflecting on “The Original Computer”

A friend of mine sent me an email today and it got me to thinking at how slow we would be as a society if we didn’t have “computers”.  They exist in our cars, stereos, tvs, college dorms, offices, houses, red lights… just about anything we own and use has some kind of computer chip to operate as it’s central processing unit.

I was listening to an audio CD and this came to me as an obscene thought:  “What if William Shakespeare had a computer?”.  What if we jumped even earlier and asked if he had a typewriter?  Well, Willy didn’t have even “the original computer”.  He had a quill and ink and painstakingly drafted every document, poem, prose, play and more using a process so tedious it is only practiced by aficionados now.  Imagine… imagine if Mr. Shakespeare had been able to use a blog, computer, word processor, typewriter, or even “the original computer”.  Without further ado, I present “the original computer”.

The Original Computer - a social networking email

The Original Computer

Memory was something you lost with age
An application was for employment
A program was a TV show
A cursor 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 on the road
A mouse pad was where a mouse lived

And if you had a 3 inch floppy…
You just hoped nobody ever found out!?!

- Unknown