How We Got Here - Stuff To Read

Posted by Hemos on Monday May 2, 2005 @02:32AM from the things-for-your-brane dept.

A reader writes:"Ever wonder why Michael Faraday, steam engines, Ezra Cornell, the Van de Beurses family and the Edison Effect were so important to today's computer business. Andy Kessler has a free download of a PDF of his new book, How We Got Here: A Slightly Irreverent History of Technology and Markets. It's a James Burke-style connect-the-dots of events and people from 1642 to this morning. Kessler's site takes you through a "poor man's DRM" process to get your very own PDF." Yeah, yeah - DRM. But the PDF/book is worth reading for understanding the history to tech. Speaking of good things to read, I also read this little ditty Not Proud, which was good. It's stuff from NotProud.com collected in dead tree form.

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LOL by Anonymous Coward · 2005-05-02 02:40 · Score: -1, Offtopic

6th post for GNAA
Re:Ditty by Anonymous Coward · 2005-05-02 03:07 · Score: -1, Offtopic

"Heres a ditty about Jack and Diane..."

I always wondered wtf he meant... I was so clueless as to what it meant I thought "maybe I am hearing the lyrics wrong." and that he was actually singing "Heres the dilly on Jack and Diane". Although, that didn't make a whole lotta' sense, as Johnny Cougar is a big ol' redneck... and the slang was just off.

Now I know, Thanks Slashdot!