{"id":626,"date":"2004-11-29T22:34:58","date_gmt":"2004-11-30T01:34:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=626"},"modified":"2004-11-29T22:34:58","modified_gmt":"2004-11-30T01:34:58","slug":"ten-years-of-whatever-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=626","title":{"rendered":"Ten years of&#8230; whatever [1]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=dropcap>J<\/span>ust the other day, it came to me that I&#8217;ve been around this In<em>tar<\/em>net for 10 years.\n<\/p>\n<p>Yes, you&#8217;ve heard that right, but don&#8217;t bother sending me congratulations. I will return those right away, including the spam you send along with them. Those 10 years: It&#8217;s a long story too. I can&#8217;t exactly recall which day I decided to &#8216;subscribe&#8217; to the Internet, but  it must have been in between September and December of 1994. It was a rather cold day and my first ISP had a wide choice of plans: long distance for 5 Guilders an hour.\n<\/p>\n<p>That was a pretty expensive offer, which I <em>then<\/em> considered a steal. I remember people asking me &#8216;what this In<em>tar<\/em>net was all about. &#8216;You can travel the WORLD behind your computer&#8217;, was my enthusiastic answer. Sure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just the other day, it came to me that I&#8217;ve been around this Intarnet for 10 years. Yes, you&#8217;ve heard that right, but don&#8217;t bother sending me congratulations. I will return those right away, including the spam you send along &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=626\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}