{"id":8476,"date":"2012-11-22T21:06:55","date_gmt":"2012-11-23T02:06:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=8476"},"modified":"2012-11-22T21:06:55","modified_gmt":"2012-11-23T02:06:55","slug":"one-reason-i-dont-feel-nostalgic-about-yesterdays-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2012\/11\/22\/one-reason-i-dont-feel-nostalgic-about-yesterdays-internet\/","title":{"rendered":"One reason I don&#8217;t feel nostalgic about yesterday&#8217;s Internet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you want to find out everything there is to know about Syfy these days, it&#8217;s simple&#8212;just open up a browser, go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.syfy.com\/\">http:\/\/www.syfy.com\/<\/a>, and you&#8217;ll discover all the info you could possibly want.<\/p>\n<p>But eighteen years ago, getting online for the scoop about what was then the Sci-Fi Channel was a wee bit more complicated, as this column from the June 1994 issue of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/editing\/sci-fi-entertainment\/\"><em>Sci-Fi Entertainment<\/em><\/a> proves. (It would have gone on sale around April 30.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/SciFiEntertainmentJune1994ChannelNews.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-8477\" title=\"SciFiEntertainmentJune1994ChannelNews\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/SciFiEntertainmentJune1994ChannelNews-221x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"221\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/SciFiEntertainmentJune1994ChannelNews-221x300.jpg 221w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/SciFiEntertainmentJune1994ChannelNews-757x1024.jpg 757w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/SciFiEntertainmentJune1994ChannelNews.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 221px) 100vw, 221px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know about you, but except for the great times I had back when it seemed as if the entire SF community centered around <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/2008\/11\/22\/how-far-weve-come\/\">GEnie<\/a>, I&#8217;m not at <em>all<\/em> nostalgic for the good old days of the Internet!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you want to find out everything there is to know about Syfy these days, it&#8217;s simple&#8212;just open up a browser, go to http:\/\/www.syfy.com\/, and you&#8217;ll discover all the info you could possibly want. But eighteen years ago, getting online for the scoop about what was then the Sci-Fi Channel was a wee bit more [&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":[163,267],"class_list":["post-8476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-sci-fi-entertainment","tag-syfy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8476","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=8476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}