{"id":2320,"date":"2012-09-19T14:00:12","date_gmt":"2012-09-19T19:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=2320"},"modified":"2012-09-18T23:57:42","modified_gmt":"2012-09-19T04:57:42","slug":"has-it-really-been-that-long","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2012\/09\/has-it-really-been-that-long\/","title":{"rendered":"Has it really been that long?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/mactoids.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/imac-233mhz-bondi-front.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"230\" height=\"164\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Time from introduction of the original Macintosh (1\/24\/84) to introduction of the first iMac (5\/6\/98): 5217 days. <a href=\"http:\/\/mactoids.com\/imac-history\/imac-233mhz-powerpc-g3-bondi-blue-rev-a\/\">(It shipped in August of that year.)<\/a>\u00a0(Go to the 16-minute mark of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UJSTwzBYOm8\">this YouTube video<\/a> for the introduction)<\/p>\n<p>Time from introduction of the first iMac to the present day: 5251 days, or 34 days longer.<\/p>\n<p>I got to thinking about this while reading Walter Isaacson&#8217;s biography about Steve Jobs, which covers a lot of ground I knew but has more detail about Jobs&#8217; fervor for slot-loading drives and how that affected Apple&#8217;s entire digital strategy at the turn of the century, and about Apple in the 21st century in general.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time from introduction of the original Macintosh (1\/24\/84) to introduction of the first iMac (5\/6\/98): 5217 days. (It shipped in August of that year.)\u00a0(Go to the 16-minute mark of this YouTube video for the introduction) Time from introduction of the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2012\/09\/has-it-really-been-that-long\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2320","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=2320"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2326,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2320\/revisions\/2326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}