How to buy a computer

Learn singing and playing

Learn more about the history of computers and find a fun song about a computer mouse on www.britishcouncil.org/kids-topics-computers.htm

A poem

Listen to this poem (episode 6)

The Good Old Days
A computer was something on TV
From a science fiction show of note

A window was something you hated to clean

And ram was the cousin of a goat.
Meg was the name of my girlfriend

And gig was a job for the nights

Now they all mean different things

And that really mega bytes.
An application was for employment

A program was a TV show

A curser used profanity

A keyboard was a piano.
Memory was something you lost with age

A CD was a bank account

And if you had a 3-in. floppy

You hoped nobody found out.
Compress was something you did to the trash

Not something you did to a file

And if you unzipped anything in public

You'd be in jail for a while.
Log on was adding wood to the fire

Hard drive was a long trip on the road

A mouse pad was where a mouse lived

And a backup happened to your commode.
Cut you did with a pocket knife

And paste you did with glue

A web was simply a spider's home

And a virus was just the flu.
I guess I'll stick to my pad and paper

And the memory that's in my head

I hear nobody's been killed in a computer crash

But when it happens they'll wish they were dead.
Author Unknown

From the history of the Internet