
How I Invented the Internet
A Memoir
Marilyn Carr(Author)
Iguana Books (Publisher)
Published on 30. September 2022
Book
Paperback/Softback
222 pages
978-1-77180-568-1 (ISBN)
Description
Despite growing up in Deep River, Ontario, the company town for Chalk River Nuclear Laboratories that only exists because of science, Marilyn Carr was firmly neither a science, technology, engineering, nor mathematics person. When How I Invented the Internet begins, she has just wrapped up a master's degree in library science, which at least involved the word "science." So how did she accidentally end up in a tech career? It's complicated.
How I Invented the Internet is a coming-of-work-age memoir set in 1980s and '90s Toronto. Along the way, our heroine muddles through a series of baffling jobs, patronizes questionable social venues, cobbles together a dating life with more downs than ups, and makes dubious housing choices. It's a romp through the era of aspirational yuppies, outrageous shoulder pads, and the wonders of office automation. You will never look at your computer the same way again.
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Language
English
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
319 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-77180-568-1 (9781771805681)
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Marilyn Carr is an MFA graduate from the from the University of King's College, Halifax, Nova Scotia, which is her fourth degree but who's counting? (She is.) Her first memoir, Nowhere like This Place: Tales from a Nuclear Childhood, was published in 2020, followed by How I Invented the Internet in 2022. If It's Shreveport, It Must be Tuesday is the third installment of her life story. She clearly has a lot to say about herself. You can find her musings about the absurdness of everyday life at www.marilyncarr.com.