My computer broke down.
It crashed and burned!
And for my AOL,
I really yearned!
I tried to stay busy…
And keep it off my mind.
So I went to Wal-Mart,
and got on their PC.
The cashier in electronics
was staring at me.
But I didn’t care.
I had to get on line!
Check my mail,
and see what buddies I can find.
I drew a crowd
as I began to cry.
I couldn’t find the password
no matter how hard I tried!
I need my AOL!!
I got to have my fix!!
Go to my favorite places,
check out some cool pics.
The cashier called Security!
I heard her whisper low,
“We have ourselves a Psycho here”
and she has got to go!”
Security rushed over.
Not long did he stall.
Obviously he has never suffered
from AOL withdrawal.
He slapped cuffs on my wrists
and threw me out the door!
Then he looked at me and said,
“Don’t come round here no more!”
I feel so embarrassed!!
I have sunk so low!
To be kicked out of Wal-Mart….
How low can I go?
So I’ll try really hard now
to rid myself of this affliction.
Get rid of these bad habits
and my AOL addiction!
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America Online
America Online or AOL. You all know it. Some of you love it. Others hate it. But, you gotta admit, there are plenty of reasons to keep it, no matter what your more experienced internet/online friends say.
- Busy signals? No problem, I’m not alone, there are 10 Million other people also waiting to log on.
- Doesn’t America Online own the Internet?
- It came with my Windows, if I get rid of it, won’t Windows stop working?
- They erase all of my mail every month, just when I’m about done reading it.
- They must be good, I saw an ad on a bus.
- I know they must be good because it takes me an hour to get through to tech support
- If they’re raising the prices, then it must be getting better – Right?
- What else am I supposed to do with all of those free disks and CDs they send me?
- What else is there?
- Where else can I chat with a 52-year-old man named Bubbles, in Germany?
All I Need to Know I Learned from My Computer
- Share all your executables.
- Pay for your shareware.
- Don’t hit the computer.
- Back up files after you have found them.
- Clean up your own messy desktop.
- Don’t copy software that is not yours.
- Make a smiley when you send someone a nasty message.
- Wash your hands before you type.
- Flush your buffers.
- M & Ms and a cold can of Coke are good for you.
- Live a student’s life–learn some and think some and MacDraw and IPaint and Readnews and play Tetris and hack every day some.
- Take a break every two hours from staring at the terminal.
- When you go out in the world, watch out for network traffic, hold connections and stick together.
- Be aware of wonder. Remember the little bytes in the chip: The code goes in and the graphics come out and nobody really knows how or why, but computers are all like that.
- Pets and Lisas and DN350s and even the little bytes in the chip all die. So do we.
- And then remember the Computer Reference Manuals and the first command you learned–the biggest command of all–Quit.