{"id":1304,"date":"2003-01-28T16:47:00","date_gmt":"2003-01-28T20:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=1304"},"modified":"2003-01-28T16:47:00","modified_gmt":"2003-01-28T20:47:00","slug":"before-the-web","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2003\/01\/28\/16\/47\/before-the-web\/","title":{"rendered":"Before The Web"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So apparently the stuff I used to do (multimedia) has officially become creaky enough to be catalogued in museums. Apparently, <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/iathreads\/post-view.php?id=4063\">this is a _vital_ pre-broadband era where some of the first widely available ideas of &#8216;virtual reality&#8217; and cinema-quality 3D graphics for the home were being explored<\/a><\/i>. I still have some original <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wired\/archive\/5.02\/updata.html?person=laurie_anderson&#038;topic_set=wiredpeople\">Voyager<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wired\/archive\/4.07\/stein.html?person=laurie_anderson&#038;topic_set=wiredpeople\"> Company<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dantowitz.com\/cdroms.html\">multimedia<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wordyard.com\/dmz\/digicult\/cd-state-of-art-7-94.html\"> CD-ROMs<\/a> and although getting them to work on recent operating systems is indeed a chore, they are true <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wordyard.com\/dmz\/digicult\/anderson-motel-5-10-95.html\">works of art<\/a>. With basically no consumer-level broadband, the goal was to use the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/cdroms\/cdromslisting-browse.php?collection=macromedia\">CD-ROM&#8217;s 650MB<\/a> (in those days an almost unimaginably huge amount!) to transfer and retail what we now recognize as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wired\/archive\/2.12\/winter_pr.html\">thematic websites<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So apparently the stuff I used to do (multimedia) has officially become creaky enough to be catalogued in museums. Apparently, this is a _vital_ pre-broadband era where some of the first widely available ideas&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}