NotChris
never obsoleteThe Way Things Work (1994)
Computers
Computers
...Ace Detective? Are you stupid or something?@256 it's John Mastodon
Daniil Baturin
FediThing 
mtjm@FediThing @256 It's from this CD-ROM: https://archive.org/details/the-way-things-work-cdrom. (The images are BMP, so they can be opened without installing the software.)
I think a Polish version of this was one of my favorite educational CD-ROMs of my childhood. (Unless there were other works with mammoths.)
lanoid@FediThing @mtjm @256 before cd rom this was a glorious book in the Richard Scarry Ilk. Love it. Thank you!
stilescrisis@256 Wow!! I had this book as a child. The picture of the elephant (mastodon?) unlocked the memory.
pandabutter [I have moved]@256 Oh, this book was so good! I had the slightly-updated version, "The NEW Way Things Work". Utterly delightful.
Tired Bunny 
@256 I have actually read this book, but newer edition (?) and translated
UPD: And this screenshot seems to be an interactive software version of the thing instead
UPD: And this screenshot seems to be an interactive software version of the thing instead
Ety, Ringer of Bells ^G@256 ahhh so many hours of my childhood with this software. I could redraw the laser and pumps from memory even today.
Raphael@256 That was one of my favorite books back then!
kechpaja@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!).
Lee Benningfield@256 I had the original hardcover version of this and would flip through it for hours. Never got the CD-ROM.
Doru (yeah)@256 mastodon users be like
James@256 @oceanotter I still have the CD-Rom of that! Doubt anything I own would run it though.
Frank Hightower 🐁
vriska, thief of light 
@256 they dont
apophis@256 i think i remember this book!
gredman@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!
Trees@256 even back then they knew of the importance of Mastodon!
Vegetable Gremlin ⍼👻@256 THAT DOESNT EXPLAIN THE WAY THE THING WORKS
jeeger@256 I loved that book as a child!
Thommy@256 I had that book and I loved it. So many mammoths.
Štěpán Škorpil@256 I loved this book in my childhood.
Deus@256 It took that Mastodon almost 20 years, but we're finally there. And it's great. 😆
Karelt [KAI] 
@256 but how does it work without RGB?
Merijn 👨💻
Deadly Headshot