Autobiography of a Computer

Welcome, how may I help you? Tell me, or rather command me and once commanded, I can store up gazillions of words and characters in my memory. Such teeny meany bits won’t acquire much gigs of my space. But now, I am going to analyze my memory, through the stages of my life. So, sit back and enjoy as I unravel my story from Pascal to PowerPoint…

I was born very fat, Charlie (Babbage), my dad (as I called him) was very fond of me and knew every nook and corner of me. A beep and a bop and lo behold, I was at life. They used some very fat tubes to power me, but now I’ve become potable and manageable! Anyways, let

s continue…

Soon I met one of Charlie’s friends, Lady Ada Lovelace, who gave me my first name - Ada. But that’s not my name now, I’ve got plenty of them - Tux, Windows, Lion, Tiger (of course all fine creations of Uncle Steve).

As I grew up, I travelled to various laboratories, one such was Bell Laboratories, where I got another software (I prefer calling it name) - LINUX/UNIX. That was a very lengthy name as I resorted to call myself Tux (after that penguin, of course). Then, I went to IBM and then I met Uncle Steve, who gave me a very delicious name - Apple, but the only conflict between me and him was that he ate some part of it and then brought me genus Panthera, giving me names of pesky, wildcats…

And then, came my best friend, Bill, who started a company called Microsoft. He launched my new name - Windows. Funny name, I thought but then I opened my windows to various parts of the world, connecting people. And who helped me? WWW, one of my most valuable friends.

But slowly and steadily, the youngsters are catching up and I’ve been left behind. I feel very lonely as I’ve got very less masters to serve and my previous masters have resorted to some weird electronic called smartphones! They have got some brains in them.

And then, this war has begun. WWW’s boss, Larry has started/launched some funny guy - Android. But he’s jolly sweet. Kit-Kat, Marshmallow, Lollipop, oh! He’s going to crash me someday.

Even worse is Uncle Steve’s marvel (for you all), iPhone! This ruddy thing also has usurped my throne of supremacy.

“Though the phones are gold studded,

Old is gold,

My concept will soon get outdated and shredded,

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