{"id":105,"date":"2008-07-28T08:11:07","date_gmt":"2008-07-28T08:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/07\/28\/newfangled-modern-computers\/"},"modified":"2008-07-28T08:11:07","modified_gmt":"2008-07-28T08:11:07","slug":"newfangled-modern-computers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/07\/28\/newfangled-modern-computers\/","title":{"rendered":"Newfangled modern computers."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was just going through my RSS feeds and spotted a post from <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.laughingsquid.com\/~r\/laughingsquid\/~3\/347836589\/\" target=\"_blank\">Laughing Squid<\/a> about a video <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibm.com\" target=\"_blank\">IBM<\/a> commissioned in 1968 as a glossary of computer terms.<\/p>\n<p>I was going to send it as a joke to a mate of mine who&#8217;s doing something similar, but having watched it I was surprised that it&#8217;s all still more or less accurate.&nbsp; Not sure why it surprised me, after all the basic principles are all still the same.&nbsp; I guess I still think of this stuff as being modern!&nbsp; It&#8217;s easy to forget that we&#8217;re not really doing anything new&#8230; we&#8217;re just doing in differently.&nbsp; Hell, before computers people managed and organised data and information quite happily for centuries.<\/p>\n<p>Oh&#8230; and there&#8217;s a nice bit of early DeepZooming in there too!<\/p>\n<p><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=1102630&amp;server=www.vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=&amp;fullscreen=1\" width=\"400\" height=\"302\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><br \/>A<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vimeo.com\/1102630?pg=embed&amp;sec=1102630\"> computer glossary or, coming to terms with the data processing machine<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vimeo.com\/user415024?pg=embed&amp;sec=1102630\">Eric Spiegelman<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com?pg=embed&amp;sec=1102630\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was just going through my RSS feeds and spotted a post from Laughing Squid about a video IBM commissioned in 1968 as a glossary of computer terms. I was going to send it as a joke to a mate of mine who&#8217;s doing something similar, but having watched it I was surprised that it&#8217;s &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/07\/28\/newfangled-modern-computers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Newfangled modern computers.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[132,76,133,80,40],"class_list":["post-105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-computer","tag-deepzoom","tag-history","tag-ibm","tag-seadragon","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}