Port Clinton Computing Terms
Log on Put one on to make the wood stove hotter
Log off Take the last one off, it's hot enough in here
Monitor Keep an eye on that wood stove
Download Getting the firewood off the truck
Floppy disk What you get from trying to carry too much firewood
Ram The thing that splits the firewood
Hard Drive Getting home in the winter
Prompt What the mail ain't in the winter
Window What to shut when it's cold outside
Screen What to shut in mosquito season
Byte What the mosquitos do
Bit What the mosquitos did
Megabyte What the BIG mosquitos do
Chip Munchies when monitoring
Micro Chip What's left in the bag after you eat the chips
Modem What you did to the hay fields
Dot Matrix Old Dan Matrix's wife
Lap top Where the kitty sleeps
Software The dumb plastic knives and forks they give you at the local diner
Hardware The real stainless steel cutlery
Mouse What eats the grain in the barn
Main frame What holds the barn up
Enter City talk for "come on in"
Web What a spider makes
Web site The barn or the attic
Cursor Someone who swears a lot
Search Engine What you do when the car dies
Screen Saver A repair kit for the torn window screen
Home Page A map you keep in your back pocket just in case you get lost when picking berries
Upgrade Climbing up Taft Hill
Server Lady at The Island House who brings the dinner
Mail Server Guy at the Island House who brings the dinner
Sound Card One of them technological birthday cards that plays music when you opens it
User Buddy down your street who keeps coming over and borrowing stuff
Browser What they call you when your eye brows grow together
Network When you have to repair your fishing net
Internet Complicated fish net repair method
Netscape When a fish maneuvers out of reach
Online When you get the laundry hung out on the washline
Offline When the clothes pins let go and the laundry falls on the ground!