Geeks Bearing Gifts: How the Computer World Got This Way: 1.1
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.
Editora : Mindful Press
Data da publicação : 1 dezembro 2008
Idioma : Inglês
Número de páginas : 192 páginas
ISBN-10 : 0578004380
ISBN-13 : 978-0578004389
Peso do produto : 318 g
Dimensões : 15.24 x 1.27 x 22.23 cm
Ranking dos mais vendidos: Nº 428.039 em Livros (Conheça o Top 100 na categoria Livros) Nº 8.395 em Computação, Informática e Mídias Digitais (Livros)
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