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Humour the computer

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You don't have to have a degree in computer science to enjoy this unique collection of funny stories, parodies, laughable true-life incidents, comic song lyrics, and jokey poems from the world of computing. Humour the Computer brings together a selection of some of the best computer-related, humorous material culled from a variety of sources: news groups and FTP sites on the Internet, The New Yorker, Punch, New Scientist, BYTE, Datamation, Communications of the ACM, The Journal of Irreproducible Results, and many more. Among other topics, the 70-odd assorted writings embrace the impact of computing on our lives, hilarious hardware, silly software, first encounters with computing, computer companies that we love, programming pains, and absurd academia.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

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001 DAV h

Publisher

Cambridge, Mass. : : MIT Press,., 1995

Collation

1 online resource (xvi, 226 pages) : illustrations

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

9780262291101

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001

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text

Media Type

computer

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online resource

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Subject(s)

Computers
Electronic data processing

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edited by Andrew Davison

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maya

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/3615.001.0001

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