{"id":250,"date":"2006-03-16T17:55:29","date_gmt":"2006-03-16T22:55:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=250"},"modified":"2006-03-16T17:59:43","modified_gmt":"2006-03-16T22:59:43","slug":"everything-new-is-old-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=250","title":{"rendered":"Everything new is old again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>James Lileks has a new bit up <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lileks.com\/institute\/compupromo\/index.html\">on late 60&#8217;s \/ early 70&#8217;s computers<\/a>.  It&#8217;s a series of photographs of computers from that period, along with Lilek&#8217;s own brilliant comments. It&#8217;s pretty funny, and offers a nice look at the world of computers around the time I was born.  <\/p>\n<p>Still, I find these pictures depressing somehow.  Look at those miniscule monochrome screens.  I can imagine the noise and heat and unbearable <em>slowness<\/em> of the thing.  The reel-to-reel tape storage gives me the willies as well: How much would one of those fat, heavy spools of magnetic tape hold, anyway?  Is it even a full megabyte?  I doubt it, I really do.  Despite my love for computers, I think that working with one of these beasts would be like doing a stretch in purgatory.  It&#8217;s like in the early days of the automobile, when you had to turn the crank to start it, and the thing was loud, slow and uncomfortable to use.  <em>Honestly, this is so much trouble. Can&#8217;t we just ride a horse?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Lileks has a new bit up on late 60&#8217;s \/ early 70&#8217;s computers. It&#8217;s a series of photographs of computers from that period, along with Lilek&#8217;s own brilliant comments. It&#8217;s pretty funny, and offers a nice look at the world of computers around the time I was born. Still, I find these pictures depressing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nerd-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}