Dave Barry in cyberspace

Barry, Dave, author.

Book 1996

If ever a subject was made for an author, Dave Barry and cyberspace are perfectly matched. Just imagine what can happen when Dave and his computer go mano a mano. In Dave Barry in Cyberspace, you'll learn how to produce attractive, high-impact documents when you have absolutely nothing to say; visit the world's largest computer trade show - Nerdstock in the desert; use Internet shorthand; chat with total strangers who may be boring and stupid; an...

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ISBN:

9780517595756
0517595753

Description:

viii, 215 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Contents:

1. Brief History of Computing from Cave Walls to Windows 95
Not That This Is Necessarily Progress
2. How Computers Work
3. How to Buy and Set Up a Computer
Step One: Get Valium
4. Becoming Computer Literate
Or: Words for Nerds
5. Comdex
Nerdstock in the Desert Or: Bill Gates Is Elvis
6. Software
Making Your Computer Come Alive So It Can Attack You
7. How to Install Software
A 12-Step Program
8. Word Processing
How to Press an Enormous Number of Keys Without Ever Actually Writing Anything Or: If God Had Wanted Us to Be Concise, He Wouldn't Have Given Us So Many Fonts
9. Internet
Transforming Society and Shaping the Future, Through Chat Or: Watch What You Write, Mr. Chuckletrousers Or: Why Suck Is OK, Blow Is Not Plus: Danger! Sushi Tapeworms!
10. Using Internet "Shorthand"
How You Can Be Just as Original as Everybody Else
11. Selected Web Sites
At Last: Proof That Civilization Is Doomed
12. MsPtato and RayAdverb
A Story of Love On-line
13. Conclusion
The Future of the Computer Revolution Or: Fun with Mister Johnson
14. Reprise
MsPtato and RayAdverb

LCCN:

96022316

Control Number:

66665

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