Geeks Bearing Gifts
Paperback, 209 pages
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THE PERFECT GIFT –
Whether you love the computer world the way it is, or consider it a nightmare honkytonk prison, you'll giggle and rage at Ted Nelson's telling of computer history, its personalities and infights.
Computer movies, music, 3D; the eternal fight between Jobs and Gates; the tangled stories of the Internet and the World Wide Web; all these and more are punchily told in brief chapters on many topics such as The Web Browser Salad, Voting Machines, Google, Web 2.0 and much more. These short stories make great reading – it's a book to dip in and out of.
You'll find answers to such questions as
"Why do alphabets have upper case, why not numbers?"
"Why does everything have to be hierarchical on computers? That's not how *my* projects are organized!"
"Where did WYSIWYG come from?" The answer will surprise you.
Plus, you'll find out why the author, a well-known computer veteran, hopes it can all become much better.
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I received Ted’s Book: Geeks Bearing Gifts on January 15 at my Post Office Box in the Bull Hills, Montana. During the course of a Montana white out snow storm I was watching. After supper, I opened the book and begin to read. I read through the night and by 7 AM. I am writing my review.
Important to me issues flashed in my mind during my reading based upon my experiences. My last heavy flash was a name I recognized stemming nearly at the end of this book I was reading.
I realized this book was not just about Geeks. I felt the growing importance of what I had read. And more importantly this new opportunity before me... More >
I received Ted’s Book: Geeks Bearing Gifts on January 15 at my Post Office Box in the Bull Hills, Montana. During the course of a Montana white out snow storm I was watching. After supper, I opened the book and begin to read. I read through the night and by 7 AM. I am writing my review.
Important to me issues flashed in my mind during my reading based upon my experiences. My last heavy flash was a name I recognized stemming nearly at the end of this book I was reading.
I realized this book was not just about Geeks. I felt the growing importance of what I had read. And more importantly this new opportunity before me... More >
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