How to Make Real Money in Second Life
Freedman
2008
This one is mine. I had been neglecting my weeding and found this floating around my computer books. This book was purchased and added to the collection in 2008 and it had exactly 2 circs. I guess no one wanted to make real money in Second Life. I had weeded another Second Life book back in the day, and it sounded like there were still core folks using this platform. It also sounded like it was very different from the old days.
Online Seductions
Gwinnell
1998
Before all the dating apps, Facebook, and other social media all sorts of interactions were happening in the early media of AOL, Prodigy, and BBS groups. The author professes to neither be “for” or “against” online matches. She has mostly anecdotes of both successful and not so successful matches.
Online dating is pretty mainstream now, so although her advice is not wrong, it is out of date. Time to let this one go and update with something from this century.
Internet
Koehler
1995
When I plucked this out of a library collection, I started to laugh because the average little kid would have no idea what this book was about. This book was written for their parents.
The Internet was still a novelty to most people at the time of publication. Services like AOL, Prodigy, and Compuserve were the players in making the Internet accessible to the general public.
This is a nice snapshot of the early days of the Internet, but today’s kids aren’t really interested in digging into the Gopher servers.
I wonder whatever happened to my Compuserve address?
Mary
The Internet Complete Reference
Hahn and Stout
1994
Have you been wondering what those AOL disks that come in the mail are all about? Did you hear about something called Electronic Mail? This book has you covered. It is still in circulation as of this writing. I am pretty confident that public libraries can weed pretty much any tech books from the 1990s without damaging the library’s collections.
Mary
The Computer Nut Byars 1984 I know there are lots of Betsy Byars fans out there. If Byars is still a hit with the kids, by all means carry on. My gripe is the cover art. It just looks dated.
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 life before jumping into a second.
Answer the Phone
Mander
2004
I have a feeling that if this came across my weeding list, I would probably have a minor freak out at how “new” it looks. Weeding books for some 20 odd years, I am constantly surprised by how quickly time goes and I am always saying “Didn’t I just buy that?”
How Things Work
Dalgleish
2003
How does your camcorder work? Or your VCR? Does your mobile phone look like the one pictured below? (And do you call it a “mobile phone”?)
“The floppy disk drive works like a tape recorder.” What the what?
