{"id":157,"date":"2005-11-01T17:41:43","date_gmt":"2005-11-01T17:41:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/wordp\/?p=157"},"modified":"2005-11-01T17:41:43","modified_gmt":"2005-11-01T17:41:43","slug":"tripped-over-down-memory-lane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/?p=157","title":{"rendered":"Tripped over down memory lane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was in hospital this morning so I spent the period of the day, when I wasn&#8217;t sleeping, trawling some blogs and catching up on the minutae of other people&#8217;s lives. I managed to find <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbsdocumentary.com\/\">this<\/a>. A fascinating documentary on the first form of internetworked geek communion, BBS. I was a big fan of these in the day and used to connect using my gee whizz <a href=\"http:\/\/acorn.revivalteam.de\/\">Acorn Archimedes<\/a>. That singled me out as a <b>power user<\/b> by the way. At a heady 4800 baud, I really smoked the joint out. Anyway, geeks who&#8217;ve been there and done that, like me, can check out this wonderful documentary and relive BBS in all their monochrome glory. There&#8217;s even a nice little interview with Internet co-inventor and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/press\/pressrel\/vintcerf.html\">Google<\/a> VP, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.icann.org\/biog\/cerf.htm\">Vinton Cerf<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was in hospital this morning so I spent the period of the day, when I wasn&#8217;t sleeping, trawling some blogs and catching up on the minutae of other people&#8217;s lives. I managed to find this. A fascinating documentary on the first form of internetworked geek communion, BBS. I was a big fan of these [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}