Another Day With My PC

22 years ago, when my computer IQ bore the same digit as my age, I really thought that the cold virus was the most common malware that infects PCs. I used to stand up and move away from the PC every time I cough, fearing that the virus residing in my body might actually cause harm to the data inside my floppy disks.

Of course, it didn’t take long for me to realize that I was harboring a foolish misconception. My computer class teacher clarified this to me in a manner that mitigated my embarrassment (she told me to cut my joke about biological viruses as being one and the same with the electronic ones). I should’ve realized that even before I enrolled for summer computer classes. I mean, come on, cough syrups for computers?

At present, nobody would most likely commit the mistake that I did in distinguishing biological viruses from electronic ones. I guess I could be forgiven for my ignorance back then since PCs were still esoteric and quite uncommon 2 decades ago. Of course, such a mistake would already be unforgivable today.

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