• By Dan Nosowitz
    May 9, 2009 4:00 PM 21,530
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    This Is Simply The Coolest Pop-Up Book We've Seen

    ABC3D: The Alphabet as Gorgeous Pop-Up Book
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    Awesome 1980s Computer Pop-Up Book: A Floppy What Now?

    Now this is one amazing Goodwill find: A vintage pop-up book designed to teach burgeoning nerds about the wonders of the modern computer. Floppy disks, ASCII, and the dot-matrix printer. Oh my.

    Some of this stuff is amazing, like an ASCII and binary decoder, and the hilarious message on the dot-matrix printer:

    Now that we've met, I'm ready to work—and play—with you. See you soon! Goodbye.

    Computers used to be so adorable (and polite!). [JonathanRyan]


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