Then along came DOS For Dummies, a book geared toward the average person, which made learning how to navigate these systems a relatively easy process. The tone of these books was very user ...

It all started with DOS for Dummies, a simple user guide to explain ... But nearly 20 years after that quirky but very popular book hit the shelves, the franchise — along with its iconic ...

Their appeal, however, is not universal. The initial book, “DOS for Dummies,” covering a pre-Windows computer operating system, drew some resistance even inside the publishing company ...

“Dummies” got its start in 1991, when IDG Books, a unit of technology publisher International Data Group Inc., put out “DOS for Dummies,” a how-to guide for help with Microsoft Corp.’s ...

But it was John Kilcullen, founder of IDG Books Worldwide, who in 1991 had the smarts and the nerve to try to take advantage of this computer anxiety by bringing out DOS for Dummies. An instant ...

Their know-how has been packaged into a series of more than 1,000 titles that together have sold more than 150 million books nationwide since the seminal DOS for Dummies in 1991. So this ...

the original publisher For Dummies, overheard someone in a bookstore saying the current books out there were too difficult to understand and what they really needed was something called “DOS ...

The first Dummies’ book, “DOS for Dummies,” appeared on bookshelves in November 1991. The Complete Idiot’s Guides came later, and addressed varying and similar topics. The titles ...