How-to "How to Win Friends and Influence People", written by Dale Carnegie in 1936. A similar concept can be seen in many of the "[topic] For Dummies" series of tutorials and also in many other introductory surveys entitled with the suffix "101" (based on academic numberings of entry-level courses). It is common practice to write the phrase as "HOWTO" in the open-source community. This is consistent with the traditional naming scheme for technical documentation, such as FAQ and README. Another possible reason is that this makes it easier to find a how-to in search engines like Google as searching with the
How to Win Friends and Influence People lack of attention in academic circles, "How to Win Friends and Influence People" was written for a popular audience and Carnegie successfully captured the attention of his target. The book experienced mass consumption and appeared in many popular periodicals, including garnering 10 pages in the January 1937 edition of "Reader's Digest". The book continued to remain at the top of best-seller lists and was even noted in the New York Times to have been extremely successful in Nazi Germany, much to the writer's bewilderment. He wrote that Carnegie would rate "butter higher than guns as a means of winning friends"