* Log on – Make the barbie hotter
* Log off – Don’t add any more wood
* Monitor – Keep an-eye on that barbie
* Download – Getting the firewood off the ute
* Floppy disc – What you get from trying to carry too much firewood
* Window – What to shut when it’s cold outside
* Screen – What to shut in the mosquito season
* Byte – What the mosquitos do
* Bit – What the mosquitos did
* Mega Byte – What the Townsville mosquitos do
* Chip – A bar snack
* Micro Chip – What’s left in the bag after you eat the chips
* Modem – What you did to the hay field
* Dot Matrix – Old Dan Matrix’s wife
* Laptop – Where the cat sleeps
* Software – The plastic knives and forks they give you at the Red Rooster
* Hardware – The real stainless steel cutlery
* Mouse – What eats the grain in the shed
* Mainframe – What holds the shed up
* Web – What a spider makes
* Web site – The shed or under the verandah
* Cursor – Someone who swears
* Search Engine – What you do when the ute won’t go
* Upgrade – Steep hill
* Server – The person at the hotel who brings the counter lunch
* Mail Server – The bloke at the hotel who brings the counter lunch
* Sound Card – The one that wins the hand of 500
* User – The neighbour who keeps borrowing stuff
* Network – When you have to repair your fishing net
* Internet – Complicated fish net repair method
* Netscape – When a fish manoeuvres out of reach
* Online – When you get the laundry hung out on the washing line
* Off line – When the clothes pegs let go and the washing falls on the ground
From "Consumer Choice" magazine (Ireland)
* State-of-the-art – Any computer you can’t afford
* Obsolete – Any computer you own
* Microsecond – The time it takes for your computer to become obsolete
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