I Love My Computer Because My Friends Live in It: Stories from an Online Life
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| Rating | : | 4.91 (989 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B06Y45YZ68 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 236 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-04-21 |
| Language | : | English |
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Just good old times Great book to read. L. Suarez Oh I loved the writing and the reminiscing back the old days with AOL, Chat rooms, just hilarious funny. I received a free ARC for an honest review.This is a good book to pick up, for those that started with our first computer back in the 80's.Just very entertaining. I wish I could r. "Truman Capote meets Steve Wozniak - You will love this book." according to Joe Liebman. If you remember when computer screens were green, AOL CD-ROMs came in the mail, BlackBerrys still roamed the earth, and Gawker was the best thing online, you're going to love this book. The author deftly mixes your memories of 80s, 90s, and 00s technology with her hilarious life stor. JAG said A brilliant deconstruction of the digital age by a tech insider. I binge-read this book! It's fun and funny, but don't let that fool you - this is an incisive look at the digital forces that have shaped our world and our world view. A must for anyone interested in understanding the ethos of our digital society.
She bets most people would credit technology for many of their successes, too, if they could only shed the notion that it's as a mind-numbing drug on which we're all overdosing.. Coming of age in suburban Connecticut in the late '80s and early '90s, Jess looked to the nascent Internet to find the tribes she couldn't find IRL: fellow Bette Midler fans; women who seemed impossibly sure of their sexuality; people who worked with computers every day as part of their actual jobs without being ridiculed as nerds. It's in large part because of her embrace of an online life that Jess is where she is now, happily married, with a wife, son, and dog, and making a living of analyzing Internet trends and forecasting the future of tech. From accounts of the lawless chat rooms of early AOL to the perpetual high school reunions that are modern-day Facebook and Instagram, her essays make something clear: that all of us have a much more twisted, meaningful, emotional relationship with the online world than we realize or let on. I Love My Computer Because My Friends Live in It is tech analyst Jess Kimball Leslie's hilarious, frank homage to the technology that contributed so significantly to the person she is today