{"id":1721,"date":"2002-08-09T11:11:32","date_gmt":"2002-08-09T11:11:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=1721"},"modified":"2002-08-09T11:11:32","modified_gmt":"2002-08-09T11:11:32","slug":"the_history_of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=1721","title":{"rendered":"The History of the Mac"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/radio.weblogs.com\/0104634\/\">Ernie the Attorney<\/a> writes about a book that I now want to add to my <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/wishlist\/CH249FBV1AN9?add-fav=1\" TARGET=\"_blank\">wish list<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<blockquote>\n<p><STRONG><U><FONT color=purple>Insanely Great<\/FONT><\/U><\/STRONG> &#8211; I&#8217;m reading this Steven Levy book, which is the story of &#8220;the Life and Times of the Macintosh, The Computer That Changed Everything.&#8221;&nbsp; The Mac was introduced in 1984.&nbsp; I was entering my third year of law school when I wandered into a computer store and saw the Mac.&nbsp; I knew right then it was a revolutionary product, and I wanted one immediately.&nbsp; I pooled all of my resources, and borrowed money from relatives, to buy one.&nbsp; I still have that Mac in my garage, and I will keep that computer (<I>which doesn&#8217;t work anymore<\/I>) until the day I die.&nbsp; It was a sad day when I realized that I had to switch to the PC world (which is consistently behind the curve on things like Firewire, and Wi-Fi).&nbsp; Steve Jobs was absolutely right when he said the Mac was &#8220;insanely great&#8221;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; It truly did change computing, and open a special door to a world that we now all take for granted. [<a href=\"http:\/\/radio.weblogs.com\/0104634\/\">Ernie the Attorney<\/a>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p \/>\n<p>Ernie, it is possible to switch back these days! (even if apple&#8217;s commercials are silly)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ernie the Attorney writes about a book that I now want to add to my wish list: Insanely Great &#8211; I&#8217;m reading this Steven Levy book, which is the story of &#8220;the Life and Times of the Macintosh, The Computer That Changed Everything.&#8221;&nbsp; The Mac was introduced in 1984.&nbsp; I was entering my third year [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}