{"id":75,"date":"2007-03-12T23:00:13","date_gmt":"2007-03-13T04:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ericgharrison.wordpress.com\/2007\/03\/12\/great-short-video-shift-happens"},"modified":"2007-03-12T23:00:13","modified_gmt":"2007-03-13T04:00:13","slug":"great-short-video-shift-happens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/?p=75","title":{"rendered":"Great short video &#8211; Shift Happens"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"msgcns!E4092A968B7C1A54!233\" class=\"bvMsg\">\n<div>I picked <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottmcleod.org\/didyouknow.wmv\">this <\/a>up off of Joe Healy&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.devfish.net\/\">business blog<\/a>.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>What a great video!\u00a0 Everyone should watch it.\u00a0 For those of us who have been around for a while, it just drives home that what we&#8217;ve seen so far is <strong>nothing<\/strong> compared to what&#8217;s coming!\u00a0 <\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>My first home computer had 4k of memory &#8211; notepad.exe in Windows Vista takes around 150k.\u00a0 <\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>The first terminal I used had a 300 (30 characters\u00a0\/ sec) baud modem. My current broadband connection is 800,000 characters \/ sec.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>The first floppy disc I messed with was 8&quot; across.\u00a0 The first one I owned was a 5.25&quot; single sided floppy that stored 160k and it cost several hundred dollars, in the early 1980&#8217;s.\u00a0 Hard drives will reach roughly one terabyte this year (something like 6 million times as big).\u00a0 For $500.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>The first LCD monitor I bought was 16&quot; and cost well over $1000.\u00a0 Today I run a 24&quot; that cost under $700.\u00a0 And that&#8217;s in just 5 years.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>Imagine where the next 10, 20 and 30 years will take us!<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I picked this up off of Joe Healy&#8217;s business blog. \u00a0 What a great video!\u00a0 Everyone should watch it.\u00a0 For those of us who have been around for a while, it just drives home that what we&#8217;ve seen so far is nothing compared to what&#8217;s coming!\u00a0 \u00a0 My first home computer had 4k of memory [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}