{"id":2648,"date":"2014-11-06T07:44:42","date_gmt":"2014-11-06T05:44:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/?p=2648"},"modified":"2014-11-06T09:47:46","modified_gmt":"2014-11-06T07:47:46","slug":"the-sixth-stage-of-grief-is-retro-computing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/?p=2648","title":{"rendered":"The Sixth Stage of Grief Is Retro-computing"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Moore\u2019s law, the speed at which technology moves forward, means that the digital past gets smaller every year. So this is what is left are the tracings of hundreds of people, or thousands, who, 20, 30, 40 years ago found each other and decided to fabricate all this\u2026digital stuff. Glittering ephemera. They left these markings and moved on.<\/p>\n<p>Who wouldn\u2019t want to go back 20 years\u2014to drive again into the office, to sit before the whiteboard in a beanbag chair, in a place of warmth and clarity, and give it another try?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/message\/networks-without-networks-7644933a3100\">Go read<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moore\u2019s law, the speed at which technology moves forward, means that the digital past gets smaller every year. So this is what is left are the tracings of hundreds of people, or thousands, who, 20, 30, 40 years ago found each other and decided to fabricate all this\u2026digital stuff. Glittering ephemera. They left these markings and moved on. Who wouldn\u2019t want to go back 20 years\u2014to drive again into the office, to sit before the whiteboard in a beanbag chair, in a place of warmth and clarity, and give it another try? Go read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,37,83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers","category-farting-around","category-get-off-my-lawn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2648"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2649,"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2648\/revisions\/2649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}