{"id":17207,"date":"2014-05-25T12:53:22","date_gmt":"2014-05-25T16:53:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=17207"},"modified":"2014-05-25T12:53:47","modified_gmt":"2014-05-25T16:53:47","slug":"1401-the-dawn-of-a-new-era","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2014\/05\/25\/1401-the-dawn-of-a-new-era\/","title":{"rendered":"1401: The Dawn of a New Era"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Much thanks to Rick Merrill for bringing this to my attention.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/ZPpV8X91neQ?rel=0\" style=\"border: thick ridge #009900\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<pre>\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>In 1961, I was struggling with a freshman computer seminar at MIT.  I just couldn&#8217;t figure out a key step to writing my first program.  My father thought he could help me by taking me on a visit to a friend of his who worked at the IRS in Andover, MA.  This friend showed me an IBM 1401 and its flashing lights.  I don&#8217;t recall that the friend had any knowledge of programming, nor was he of any help in answering my question.<\/p>\n<p>Eventually, I realized that I had all the knowledge that I needed.  I just had to do it.  <\/p>\n<p>That first experience with computers was so traumatic, that I didn&#8217;t take another course using computers until my senior year.  And the rest is history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Much thanks to Rick Merrill for bringing this to my attention. In 1961, I was struggling with a freshman computer seminar at MIT. I just couldn&#8217;t figure out a key step to writing my first program. My father thought he could help me by taking me on a visit to a friend of his who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-17207","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17207"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17209,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17207\/revisions\/17209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}