{"id":11406,"date":"2019-10-02T10:00:08","date_gmt":"2019-10-02T15:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=11406"},"modified":"2019-09-30T01:08:15","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T06:08:15","slug":"new-ames-flyover-ramp-has-secret-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2019\/10\/new-ames-flyover-ramp-has-secret-message\/","title":{"rendered":"New Ames flyover ramp has secret message"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You know how ancient peoples like the Vikings left communication methods <a href=\"https:\/\/sciencenorway.no\/archaeology-history-forskningno-language\/mysterious-code-in-viking-runes-is-cracked\/1396525\">that we&#8217;re still trying to figure out today<\/a>? This is kind of like that, from the Cretaceous Period of computing otherwise known as the 1970s.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">In fact, the ramp\u2019s main support pillar displays a coded message in brickwork that mimics a computer programming punch card. The message, in the Fortran language, reads \u201cJohn Vincent Atanasoff invented the first computer at Iowa State College in 1939.\u201d 2\/3 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/cycloneseverywhere?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#cycloneseverywhere<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LJJcuSxlni\">pic.twitter.com\/LJJcuSxlni<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Iowa State University ITS (@iowastateits) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/iowastateits\/status\/1176875305547575298?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 25, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>(Iowa State Information Technology Services doesn&#8217;t know how to thread tweets?!?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know how ancient peoples like the Vikings left communication methods that we&#8217;re still trying to figure out today? This is kind of like that, from the Cretaceous Period of computing otherwise known as the 1970s. In fact, the ramp\u2019s &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2019\/10\/new-ames-flyover-ramp-has-secret-message\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-highway-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11406"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11407,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11406\/revisions\/11407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}