My thoughts
Finished
Picked this book up for a whopping $2.50 at a second hand book store today and skimmed through it for around an hour. The first half of the book is a standard dictionary and the last half acts as a computing how-to guide. I was surprised at how relevant so many of the terms listed in the first half still were today. Some terms have definitely evolved but many remain unchanged despite techs leaps and bounds forward over the last 22 years. The last half of the book is titled "an introduction to personal computers". It explains concepts like "using a pointer" and lists useful idioms like "when the chips are up, the computer hums". This section was definitely a lot more fun to skip through for all the outdated references and devices listed. Overall the book was likely a pretty solid guide for getting into computers in 2000 (when it was originally released). Now it's a bit of a comedic time capsule of computers in the early aughts that's worth a quick skim.