Category: Bleeding Edge
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Leisure Suit Larry
PC Format Magazine 0963-5521 Submitter: We weeded out several years of PC Format Magazine 0963-5521. Woefully out of date. Please accept these images from the June 1993 issue – a perfect issue for Mary. Take a walk down technology memory lane (spoiler alert – this memory lane ends in a…
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Your Second Life
Designing Your Second Life Tapley 2008 So who remembers having a Second Life? I do remember trying out Second Life and finding it kind of boring. I wasn’t sure what I was supposed to “do” while in this virtual world. I also made jokes about trying to improve my first…
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A-Diskette A-Daskette
Hello, Mr. Chips! Bishop 1982 Submitter: I think this was probably a fantastic middle school book in 1982. What makes it awful now is that my students have never even heard of the terms that make up the punchlines. Also, the illustrations of computers with massive CPUs and pin-feed printers…
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I found them in the yellow pages
I Found Them in the Yellow Pages Farber 1973 Submitter: Why is this awful? First, yellow pages – does anyone under 45 know what they are? Second, only males have professional occupations. Third, the florist appears to be a predator. There are so many reasons this alphabet book needs to…
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Atomic Bomb 101
How to make an atomic bomb in your own kitchen (well, practically) Bale 1951 I know all you science nerds are looking for new recipes. How about an atomic bomb? Published in the early 1950s, this is a simple explanation about atomic energy. Written is a light tone, this book…
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Pac Man Will Ruin You!
Mind at Play The Psychology of Video Games Loftus and Loftus 1983 I get the feeling that every time a new technology appears, there will be some speculation on how the end of civilized behavior is now upon us. Television, rock and roll, cell phones, texting, video games have all…
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