{"id":2927,"date":"2008-08-26T16:17:31","date_gmt":"2008-08-26T23:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/?p=2927"},"modified":"2008-08-26T16:17:31","modified_gmt":"2008-08-26T23:17:31","slug":"something-in-the-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2008\/08\/26\/16\/17\/something-in-the-air\/","title":{"rendered":"Something In The Air"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/culture\/features\/2008\/07\/internet200807?printable=true&#038;currentPage=all\" title=\"Paul Baran, an electrical engineer, conceived one of the Internet\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s building blocks\u00e2\u20ac\u201dpacket switching\u00e2\u20ac\u201dwhile working at the Rand Corporation around 1960. Packet switching breaks data into chunks, or 'packets,' and lets each one take its own path to a destination, where they are re-assembled (rather than sending everything along the same path, as a traditional telephone circuit does). A similar idea was proposed independently in Britain by Donald Davies. Later in his career, Baran would pioneer the airport metal detector.\">I get credit for a lot of things I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t do. I just did a little piece on packet switching and I get blamed for the whole goddamned Internet, you know? Technology reaches a certain ripeness and the pieces are available and the need is there and the economics look good\u00e2\u20ac\u201dit\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s going to get invented by somebody.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I get credit for a lot of things I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t do. I just did a little piece on packet switching and I get blamed for the whole goddamned Internet, you know? Technology reaches a&#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":[795,213,798,796,797],"tags":[1624,1404,1627,1625,1626],"class_list":["post-2927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-donald-davies","category-internet","category-packet-switching","category-paul-baran","category-rand-corporation","tag-donald-davies","tag-internet","tag-packet-switching","tag-paul-baran","tag-rand-corporation"],"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\/2927","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=2927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2927\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}