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Rural South African Computer Terms
1. Log on - Make the fire hotter
2. Log off - Don't add any more wood
3. Monitor - Keep an eye on that fire
4. Download - Getting the firewood off the bakkie
5. Floppy disk - What you get from trying to carry too much firewood
6. Ram -The thing that splits the firewood
7. Hard Drive - Getting home in a heavy rain storm
8. Prompt - What the postal service used to be
9. Window - What to shut when it's cold outside
10. Screen - What to shut in mosquito season
11. Byte - What the mosquitoes do
12. Bit - What the mosquitoes did
13. Mega Byte - What the Mocambiquean mosquitoes do
14. Chip - Of the "Slap" variety at old "T" Rooms
15. Micro Chip - What's left in the bag after you eat the crisps
16. Modem - What you did to the hay fields
17. Dot matrix - Old Dan Matrix's wife
18. Laptop - Where the kitty sleeps
19. Software - The dumb plastic knives and forks they give you at
TheWimpy
20. Hardware - The real stainless steel cutlery
21. Mouse - What eats the grain in the shed
22. Mainframe - What holds the shed up
23. Enter - City talk for - "come on in, eh"
24. Web - What a spider makes
25. Web site - The shed or the attic
26. Cursor - Someone who swears
27. Search Engine - What you do when the car dies
28. Screen Saver - A repair kit for the torn window screen
29. Home Page - A map you keep in your back pocket just in case you get
lost in the field
30. Upgrade - Steep hill
31. Server - The person at the Wimpy that brings the food
32. Mail Server - The guy at the Wimpy that brings the food
33. MSDOS - Some new disease they discovered
34. Sound Card - One of them technological birthday cards that plays
music when you open it
35. User - The neighbour who keeps borrowing stuff
36. Browser - What they call you when your eye brows grow together
37. Network - When you have to repair your fishing net
38. Internet - Complicated fish net repair method
39. Netscape - When a fish manoeuvres out of reach
40. Online - When you get the laundry hung out on the wash line
41. Off line - When the clothes pegs let go and the laundry falls on
the
ground
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Lawrence
1. Log on - Make the fire hotter
2. Log off - Don't add any more wood
3. Monitor - Keep an eye on that fire
4. Download - Getting the firewood off the bakkie
5. Floppy disk - What you get from trying to carry too much firewood
6. Ram -The thing that splits the firewood
7. Hard Drive - Getting home in a heavy rain storm
8. Prompt - What the postal service used to be
9. Window - What to shut when it's cold outside
10. Screen - What to shut in mosquito season
11. Byte - What the mosquitoes do
12. Bit - What the mosquitoes did
13. Mega Byte - What the Mocambiquean mosquitoes do
14. Chip - Of the "Slap" variety at old "T" Rooms
15. Micro Chip - What's left in the bag after you eat the crisps
16. Modem - What you did to the hay fields
17. Dot matrix - Old Dan Matrix's wife
18. Laptop - Where the kitty sleeps
19. Software - The dumb plastic knives and forks they give you at
TheWimpy
20. Hardware - The real stainless steel cutlery
21. Mouse - What eats the grain in the shed
22. Mainframe - What holds the shed up
23. Enter - City talk for - "come on in, eh"
24. Web - What a spider makes
25. Web site - The shed or the attic
26. Cursor - Someone who swears
27. Search Engine - What you do when the car dies
28. Screen Saver - A repair kit for the torn window screen
29. Home Page - A map you keep in your back pocket just in case you get
lost in the field
30. Upgrade - Steep hill
31. Server - The person at the Wimpy that brings the food
32. Mail Server - The guy at the Wimpy that brings the food
33. MSDOS - Some new disease they discovered
34. Sound Card - One of them technological birthday cards that plays
music when you open it
35. User - The neighbour who keeps borrowing stuff
36. Browser - What they call you when your eye brows grow together
37. Network - When you have to repair your fishing net
38. Internet - Complicated fish net repair method
39. Netscape - When a fish manoeuvres out of reach
40. Online - When you get the laundry hung out on the wash line
41. Off line - When the clothes pegs let go and the laundry falls on
the
ground
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Lawrence