{"id":1541,"date":"2011-12-30T12:39:03","date_gmt":"2011-12-30T20:39:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/?p=1541"},"modified":"2011-12-30T12:39:03","modified_gmt":"2011-12-30T20:39:03","slug":"something-new-and-something-best-forgot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/30\/something-new-and-something-best-forgot\/","title":{"rendered":"something new and something best forgot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NOW IT CAN BE TOLD: <a href=\"http:\/\/solarbird.net\/bside\/\">Kr&auml;ken-R&ouml;hl, CRIME and the Forces of Evil, and Leannan Sidhe, Live at B-Side Music, January 27th<\/a>! Doors 6pm, shows start 7pm, more info <a href=\"http:\/\/solarbird.net\/bside\/\">on the show page<\/a> and after that to come! \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/solarbird.net\/bside\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=1 src=\"http:\/\/solarbird.net\/Livejournal\/2011-12\/bannerhead-bside-500.jpg\"><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>NOW IT HAS BEEN FORGOT: Over on Twitter, <a href=\"http:\/\/attoparsec.com\/\">Attoparsec<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/gfish\">Matthew Dockery<\/a> mentioned clearing out the old CRT computer monitors, and being glad of it. I replied that it&#8217;s funny how CRT monitors have no loyalists or preservationists, certainly not of any scale, unlike computers themselves, and vinyl LPs, and to a lesser extent CDs, the like.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s me, too; I have a couple of old Amiga CRTs I&#8217;ve held onto just in case, and even I want to get rid of them.<\/p>\n<p>And <em>that<\/em> got us talking about old technologies without fandoms. Examples include CRT computer monitors, and those wretched devices, the FAX machine. So we&#8217;re wondering: what other dead tech lacks a fandom?<\/p>\n<p>The polling software I have doesn&#8217;t allow fill-in-the-blank answers, but I&#8217;m going to start a poll anyway. Add other suggestions in comments!<\/p>\n<p>[poll=22]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NOW IT CAN BE TOLD: Kr&auml;ken-R&ouml;hl, CRIME and the Forces of Evil, and Leannan Sidhe, Live at B-Side Music, January 27th! Doors 6pm, shows start 7pm, more info on the show page and after that to come! \ud83d\ude00 NOW IT HAS BEEN FORGOT: Over on Twitter, Attoparsec&#8216;s Matthew Dockery mentioned clearing out the old CRT [&#038;hellip<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-polls","category-shows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}