{"id":1499,"date":"2008-03-18T22:18:34","date_gmt":"2008-03-18T21:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/archives\/2008\/03\/18\/viral-internet-power\/"},"modified":"2008-03-18T22:22:12","modified_gmt":"2008-03-18T21:22:12","slug":"viral-internet-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2008\/03\/18\/viral-internet-power\/","title":{"rendered":"Viral: Internet Power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Check out what <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Internet\">the Internet<\/a> was like in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1995\">1995<\/a> with this promotional video that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.waxy.org\/archive\/2008\/03\/17\/internet.shtml\">Waxy.org<\/a> have posted:<\/p>\n<p><object type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" data=\"http:\/\/blip.tv\/scripts\/flash\/showplayer.swf?enablejs=true&#038;feedurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwaxy%2Eblip%2Etv%2Frss&#038;file=http%3A%2F%2Fblip%2Etv%2Frss%2Fflash%2F758928&#038;showplayerpath=http%3A%2F%2Fblip%2Etv%2Fscripts%2Fflash%2Fshowplayer%2Eswf\" width=\"400\" height=\"255\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" id=\"showplayer\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/blip.tv\/scripts\/flash\/showplayer.swf?enablejs=true&#038;feedurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwaxy%2Eblip%2Etv%2Frss&#038;file=http%3A%2F%2Fblip%2Etv%2Frss%2Fflash%2F758928&#038;showplayerpath=http%3A%2F%2Fblip%2Etv%2Fscripts%2Fflash%2Fshowplayer%2Eswf\" \/><param name=\"quality\" value=\"best\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/blip.tv\/scripts\/flash\/showplayer.swf?enablejs=true&#038;feedurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwaxy%2Eblip%2Etv%2Frss&#038;file=http%3A%2F%2Fblip%2Etv%2Frss%2Fflash%2F758928&#038;showplayerpath=http%3A%2F%2Fblip%2Etv%2Fscripts%2Fflash%2Fshowplayer%2Eswf\" quality=\"best\" width=\"400\" height=\"255\" name=\"showplayer\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>My favourite bit:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;You&#8217;ll need a device to access the online world. That device is a Computer, with at least 386 power and 8 megabytes of RAM and has a modem installed that has 14.4 or greater speed or &#8216;baud rate.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>And of course, access to a phone line. If you have a slower modem, you will not be able to enjoy the growing multimedia aspects of the Internet, such as graphics, sound, and video.<\/p>\n<p>You will also need a connection to the Internet that connects your computer to the millions of other computers that make up this Superhighway of Information.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.waxy.org\/archive\/2008\/03\/17\/internet.shtml\">Link<\/a> via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kottke.org\/remainder\/08\/03\/15262.html\">Kottke<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check out what the Internet was like in 1995 with this promotional video that Waxy.org have posted: My favourite bit: &#8220;You&#8217;ll need a device to access the online world. That device is a Computer, with at least 386 power and 8 megabytes of RAM and has a modem installed that has 14.4 or greater speed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1499"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1499\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}