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#Alt4You description of image:

A page from a guide explaining how to use computers (presumably taken from a CD-Rom). There is a cute cartoon drawing of a mammoth or mastodon sitting down, wearing glasses, using a desktop PC.

@256 Wow!! I had this book as a child. The picture of the elephant (mastodon?) unlocked the memory.

@256 Oh, this book was so good! I had the slightly-updated version, "The NEW Way Things Work". Utterly delightful.

@256 ahhh so many hours of my childhood with this software. I could redraw the laser and pumps from memory even today.

@256 That was one of my favorite books back then!

@256 I had a copy of that growing up!

I wonder if the illustrator is still alive, and would be open to doing a guide to Mastodon in the same style (with the mammoths, of course!).

@256 I had the original hardcover version of this and would flip through it for hours. Never got the CD-ROM.

@256 I remember that book! It had the whole thing with the elephant seeing the rolls of paper with splotchy colors move past, right?

@256 mastodon users be like

@256 @oceanotter I still have the CD-Rom of that! Doubt anything I own would run it though.

@256 they dont

@256 false, computers do not work.

@256 As a computer science professor, I have to say, even after all these years, this is still the best explanation of how computers work!

@256 even back then they knew of the importance of Mastodon!