{"id":233,"date":"2011-05-27T09:27:24","date_gmt":"2011-05-27T13:27:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.digitalundercurrents.com\/blog\/?p=233"},"modified":"2011-05-27T09:27:24","modified_gmt":"2011-05-27T13:27:24","slug":"de-evolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.digitalundercurrents.com\/blog\/?p=233","title":{"rendered":"De-Evolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>IT World is running a fun article on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itworld.com\/software\/168413\/computer-de-evolution-features-lost-evolutionary-war\">features that we&#8217;ve lost from our computers<\/a> over the years. While the common perception is that technology is always getting better, it does occasionally happen that a really useful concept or feature vanishes, never to reappear.<\/p>\n<p>(My favorite, which isn&#8217;t in the article, was the old SCO Unix capability to turn all of the text in a terminal window red if you were logged in as root. It was so simple, but such a great visual clue.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IT World is running a fun article on features that we&#8217;ve lost from our computers over the years. While the common perception is that technology is always getting better, it does occasionally happen that a really useful concept or feature vanishes, never to reappear. (My favorite, which isn&#8217;t in the article, was the old SCO [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.digitalundercurrents.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.digitalundercurrents.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.digitalundercurrents.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.digitalundercurrents.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.digitalundercurrents.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.digitalundercurrents.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.digitalundercurrents.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.digitalundercurrents.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.digitalundercurrents.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}