>>In my day, we didn't have mouses to move the danged cursor around. We only had the arrows, and if the up arrow was broken and you needed to get to the top of the screen, well you just hit the left arrow a thousand times, dadgummit!
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>And do you remember you had to feed the cursormen in your screen every once in a while, or else they'd go on strike and would just plain stop obeying commands? Your cursor would just stay at the same position forever until you fed them. Those tiny creatures used to be quite nasty at times.
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>I figure they'd be called cursorpersons nowadays.
We still call them englishmen! (duck)
(To avoid confusion: a few decades ago, englishmen got quite a reputation for all their strikes, which for instance more or less ruined their car industry)