ancient history

[owlmoose]

So I'm taking advantage of a quiet night in the library to do a little weeding. And I'm coming across books about the Internet from 1996.

Books. About the Internet. From 1996.

And my superiors wonder why I feel the need to get rid of at least two thirds of the collection?

Comments

[coco-keesses.livejournal.com]

OH DUDE!! That's history!! Aren't those titles fetching good $$ on ebay? or belong in an internet museum?

K has the book Voodoo dos (way old) which he can sell for $30 or something...

[owlmoose.livejournal.com]

These are stupid books, though. Like "the Internet for Dummies" type books, although none that bear that title. "Let's pretend that the Web is a piece of software that we can learn to use by reading a manual!" I would probably have advised against buying them when they were new. Although I suppose that's hindsight talking, at least in part. I wonder if anyone would have guessed in 1996 what a moving target the Web was going to be.

Still, you're right, I should check. You'll never know what someone thinks is going to be a collectable.