Languages Which Almost Became CSS

Re:Languages Which Almost Became CSS by girvo on Wednesday June 29, 2016 @02:25AM (#11999845)

When I was 6 years old, in 1996, my parents gave me a book about "Cyberspace" to go along with our dial-up internet connection (on our Pentium 100mhz Windows 95 computer!). This book showed me Gopher, and MUDs, and changed my life! I wish I could remember the name of it, it was a bright yellow cover with a superhero on it, I think.

I miss Gopher, in a rose-tinted glasses nostalgia-driven way

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Re:Languages Which Almost Became CSS by wolfgke on Wednesday June 29, 2016 @05:49PM (#12005084)

> I wish I could remember the name of it, it was a bright yellow cover with a superhero on it, I think.

Could it be Computer Lib/Dream Machines by Ted Nelson:

Cover of the 1974 edition: http://blogs.brandeis.edu/sarahw/files/2011/03/cover1.jpg

Front cover of the 1987 edition (in yellow): https://www.amazon.co.uk/Computer-Lib-Dream-Machines-Tempus/... (sorry, I have no image of the back cover, but I have both editions in my book shelf: Also the 1987 edition shows a superhero on its back cover (cover of Dream Machines)).

EDIT: If you want to order a reprint of the 1st edition (very difficult to get): Ted Nelson sells them again: http://hyperland.com/LibPage

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Re:Languages Which Almost Became CSS by dTal on Friday July 01, 2016 @08:34AM (#12015474)

I'm pretty sure I had the same book! The "superhero" was called "CyberSarge", yes?

https://www.amazon.com/Internet-Kids-Ted-Pedersen/dp/0600590...

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Re:Languages Which Almost Became CSS by girvo on Friday July 01, 2016 @09:18AM (#12015752)

YES!!!! That's the one! Holy crap, well done, I never thought I'd see it again! Oh man what a nostalgia trip:

"GEEK: A geek is someone who is really excited by computers and proud of it" -- this is the reason I was proud to call myself a geek from 6yo onwards :)

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