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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Barry, Dave. Dave Barry in cyberspace. New York : Crown, 1996 (OCoLC)654456909 |
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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Dave Barry |
| ISBN: | 0517595753 9780517595756 |
| OCLC Number: | 34943209 |
| Description: | viii, 215 p. ; 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. |
| Responsibility: | Dave Barry. |
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Abstract:
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; and discover the world's largest collection of viola jokes - all this and more. When you rattle down the pothole-studded information superhighway with Dave Barry at the wheel, you will be a:) and you will be LOL, even ROTFL.
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