New Taschen book on the history of the computer

The photos in https://www.docubyte.com/projects/guide-to-computing/ are absolutely amazing, and I like the little touches like animation of blinking lights. I'd wish this was also available as a book.

Shouldn't forget to mention, not all titles are SFW.

They're awesome. Their Klimt hard cover book is a treat.

Their prices don't depreciate either.

Taschen primarily makes quality artbooks in the trade paperback size instead of coffee table book size like most art books. So they are pocketsized artbooks, at least compared to most artbooks, few of their books actually would fit in any reasonable sized pocket due to their tendency to be in the thousand page range.

While "Taschen" is the German (plural) word for "pockets" it is the last name of the book publisher too:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benedikt_Taschen

It’s just the founder’s last name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benedikt_Taschen

It's a pretty well known publisher, their books are usually very good.

When I visit Germany I love to have a Dönertaschen.

It's not a fake. It's just misattributed to Grace Hopper.

As for the claim that it's the origin of the word bug, that's just the typical exaggeration that befalls many stories. Memetic mutation turns everything into a story about superlatives. The text of the log book itself makes it clear that this is just the first time that the bug has been literally found, a comment that only makes sense if the phrase was already firmly established.

The article mentions that Taschen is known for trilingual books.

Usually the pictures have a bit of small text next to them. Don't expect full stories or documentary style text. You're not supposed to read these books, but skim through the pages and look at the pictures. The text is only there to give some context.

Think of it like the text next to a picture in the museum. That is also often only 2 or 3 sentences. And repeated in multiple languages.

So whichever you order, you'll get definitely English, no worries there.

Look, here you can zoom into the text, it's clearly three paragraphs, the first one repeated in three languages

https://taschen.makaira.media/taschen/image/upload/f_webp,w_...

They are in all three languages simultaneously, side by side. If you can read English, either one will be fine for you.

There are two editions of the book. Each has the text in three languages. https://www.taschen.com/en/books/popculture/04692/the-comput...

I wonder who published the book

We still default to this handset style on audiophones and the experience is much better for the other end. I wish people would zoom using handsets (when headsets not available).

I don’t see why when we add video we would automatically drop the handset, or rather why would we keep on designing handset phones when hands free technology exists.