{"id":6170,"date":"2008-11-22T20:40:40","date_gmt":"2008-11-23T01:40:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=6170"},"modified":"2012-04-26T23:02:06","modified_gmt":"2012-04-27T03:02:06","slug":"how-far-weve-come","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2008\/11\/22\/how-far-weve-come\/","title":{"rendered":"How far we&#8217;ve come"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was looking back through some of my earliest publications and came across this ad for GEnie&#8217;s SF &#038; Fantasy RoundTable as printed on the inside front cover of the November 1989 issue of <i>Isaac Asimov&#8217;s Science Fiction Magazine<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/GEnieAsimovs.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/GEnieAsimovs-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"GEnieAsimovs\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6171\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/GEnieAsimovs-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/GEnieAsimovs.jpeg 492w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Raise your hand if you can remember GEnie, or having to &#8220;set your modem for half duplex (local echo) at 300 or 1200 baud.&#8221; Does anyone still have to do that sort of thing, or have such manipulations gone the way of the buggy whip?<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t remember the exact year I joined GEnie, only that it was so early in the online timeline that there really  wasn&#8217;t  any other reason to <i>be<\/i> online. Back then, GEnie was  where all the cool kids hung out &#8230; sort of like LJ today.<\/p>\n<p>The solicitation may look primitive now, but it sure seemed tantalizing and state of the art back then.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t wait to see how primitive today&#8217;s online interfaces (and the ads for them) will look nineteen years from <i>now<\/i>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was looking back through some of my earliest publications and came across this ad for GEnie&#8217;s SF &#038; Fantasy RoundTable as printed on the inside front cover of the November 1989 issue of Isaac Asimov&#8217;s Science Fiction Magazine. Raise your hand if you can remember GEnie, or having to &#8220;set your modem for half [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[194,55,13],"class_list":["post-6170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-genie","tag-isaac-asimov","tag-old-magazines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}