Control + Alt + Delete - A Dict.of Cyber Slang by Jonathon Keats
Control + Alt + Delete - A Dict.of Cyber Slang by Jonathon Keats
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Author(s): Jonathon Keats
Pub: Lyons Press
Pack Qty: 24 (Paperback)
ISBN: 9781599210391 - New
171mm x 152mm x 19mm
Publication: 1 April 2007Pages: 272
The technology revolution is also a revolution in language, with new words created seemingly every day. Control + Alt + Delete is the book for readers who dont know what blook, chiptune, or slivercast mean. Covering the basics, such as blogs and wikis, as well as more advanced terminology, it includes the terms as well as the definitions everyone needs to be in-the-know, such as:
* BugThe first bug to cause a system malfunction was actually a moth caught in a computer at Harvard shortly after WWII, according to legend.* Weblogistan A segment of the blogosphere maintained by Iranian activists as a parallel universe to their countrys oppressive political landscape.
Jonathon Keats pens the GǣJargonWatchGǥ column for Wired Magazine and has written for The Washington Post, Popular Science, and salon.com. He lives in San Francisco. * A unique and timely reference* Fun, easy-to-read format * Smart, fast, funny writing
* Paperback original
