{"id":1674,"date":"2008-04-16T13:30:12","date_gmt":"2008-04-16T17:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/2008\/04\/16\/now-vs-then-1988-and-2008-a-tech-retrospective\/"},"modified":"2015-09-14T08:07:55","modified_gmt":"2015-09-14T12:07:55","slug":"now-vs-then-1988-and-2008-a-tech-retrospective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/2008\/04\/16\/now-vs-then-1988-and-2008-a-tech-retrospective\/","title":{"rendered":"Now vs. then: 1988 and 2008, A Tech Retrospective"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n<p align=\"center\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-content\/uploads\/old_toshiba_laptop.jpg\" alt=\"old_toshiba_laptop.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I wasn&#8217;t sure if this was more a news item or a tip, but I&#8217;ll consider it a tip (actually, a recommended web site). PC World recently had <a href=\"http:\/\/pcin.net\/c\/?2111\">an article comparing technology from 10 years ago with today<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Ever wax nostalgic about your first PC or cell phone? It&#8217;s easy to forgive your Tandy desktop or your Motorola portable for their limitations&#8211;after all, they were technological infants.<\/p>\n<p>What we often forget, though, is how $%#@! expensive that crude neolithic junk was! So join us on a trip two decades back in technology&#8217;s history&#8211;and we bet that the next time you&#8217;re charged $895 for a small square of plastic and transistors, you&#8217;ll smile and say, &#8220;Wow, what a bargain!&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The article compares personal computers and components. It&#8217;s quite interesting!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wasn&#8217;t sure if this was more a news item or a tip, but I&#8217;ll consider it a tip (actually, a recommended web site). PC World recently had an article comparing technology from 10 years ago with today. Ever wax nostalgic about your first PC or cell phone? It&#8217;s easy to forgive your Tandy desktop &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1977,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1674","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-recommended-web-sites","7":"anons"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1977"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1674\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}