In 1991, a bumblebee-colored paperback called DOS for Dummies—a smiley corrective to austere computer manuals—was published; it eventually sold 6 million copies. The wicked DOS operating system was ...
It all started with DOS for Dummies, a simple user guide to explain how a now almost extinct computer operating system from the early 1980s worked. But nearly 20 years after that quirky but very ...
Two of America's most overexposed institutions--Dr. Ruth Westheimer and "For Dummies" books--have finally found each other. Now the publishers who brought you more than 200 how-to tomes (including ...
A book for dummies is supposed to be written for eighth-graders. That is the rule from dummy headquarters. Not written for high schoolers, as high school students are no dummies. Also, it is supposed ...
American Dan Gookin, who wrote the first Dummies book, on computing, in 1991. The series has since expanded to tackle subjects ranging from beekeeping to Shakespeare.Credit: The thing most people ...