{"id":709,"date":"2009-01-14T11:24:43","date_gmt":"2009-01-14T11:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=709"},"modified":"2009-01-14T11:24:43","modified_gmt":"2009-01-14T11:24:43","slug":"apple-mac-25th-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=709","title":{"rendered":"Apple Mac 25th Anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The  Mac  is 25 on 24 January. This is that video everyone raved about when it was shown during the 1984  Superbowl :<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\" data=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/OYecfV3ubP8&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/OYecfV3ubP8&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>You can  read more here, but the one quotation I really like is from  John C Dvorak  in the San Francisco Examiner:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">The nature of the personal computer is simply not fully understood by companies like Apple (or anyone else for that matter). Apple makes the arrogant assumption of thinking that it knows what you want and need. It, unfortunately, leaves the &#8220;why**\u009d out of the equation **\u201d as in &#8220;why would I want this?**\u009d The Macintosh uses an experimental pointing device called a **\u02dcmouse&#8217;. There is no evidence that people want to use these things. I dont want one of these new fangled devices. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I like it when people say things which could so easily blow up in their faces.<\/p>\n<p>Most embarrassing of all has to be how anyone thought the Mac would ever beat the PC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mac is 25 on 24 January. This is that video everyone raved about when it was shown during the 1984 Superbowl : You can read more here, but the one quotation I really like is from John C Dvorak in the San Francisco Examiner: The nature of the personal computer is simply not fully [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[121],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latestposts"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}