1992 Computing Book

MAllie · Jun 28, 2008

This is kind of whimsical, and I couldn't see a place about books to put it in, but I came across a book in a library sale called Hundreds of Fascinating & Unique Ways to Use Your Computer, by Tina Rathbone. It's copyright 1992, and it gives you a funny feeling to imagine all the great domain names that must have been still free when it was published.

Commerce · Jun 30, 2008

If you like that sort of thing, I would suggest you check out "The Devil's DP Dictionary" by Stan Kelly-Bootle from 1981 (well before DNS was invented and before TCP/IP was really established - at that time they were still using ARPANet, though I think Al Gore had actually been invented then or was reinvented at or about that time.. or something).

-Commerce

draggar · Jun 30, 2008

A few months ago we found a storage room at work that was an old IT storage room that everyone forgot about.

Too bad, too. 2-3 years ago it would have been a gold mine but today it was circular file items.

About 15 19" CRT monitors, older PCs, (which all got sent back to our depot) and books, the most recent one was a "sneak peek" at the revolutionary and new Windows XP.

Another taught the latest HTML technology.

I have to admit, sometimes it is great to read these books.