{"id":12290,"date":"2013-07-19T07:05:51","date_gmt":"2013-07-19T12:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/?p=12290"},"modified":"2013-07-18T12:47:08","modified_gmt":"2013-07-18T17:47:08","slug":"friday-fast-factsfun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/12290","title":{"rendered":"Friday Fast Facts\/Fun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes people talk about &#8220;new&#8221; technology without realizing just how old it really is. I culled these items from a librarian&#8217;s personal <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidleeking.com\/2013\/07\/16\/still-talking-about-old-technology\/#.UegdkKwv7Ak\" title=\"Still Talking about Old Technology? blog post\" target=\"_blank\">blog<\/a>. Just something to think about&#8230;what technology is out there now that we haven&#8217;t started talking about yet??<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.about.com\/od\/Twitter-Basics\/a\/The-Real-History-Of-Twitter-In-Brief.htm\" title=\"The Real History of Twitter, In Brief\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a> \u2013 7 years old (founded 2006)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/facebook\/info\" title=\"About Facebook\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> \u2013 9 years old (founded 2004)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/wiki\/Gutenberg:About\" title=\"About Project Gutenberg\" target=\"_blank\">ebooks<\/a> \u2013 42 years old (1971 when Project Gutenberg started, though prototypes and patents go all the way back to the 1940s!)<\/li>\n<li>ebook readers \u2013 15 years old (1998, probably earlier)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.qrcode.com\/en\/history\/\" title=\"History of QR Code\" target=\"_blank\">QR Codes<\/a> \u2013 19 years old (created in 1994)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/theweek.com\/article\/index\/237240\/the-text-message-turns-20-a-brief-history-of-sms\" title=\"The text messge turns 20: A brief history of SMS\" target=\"_blank\">text messaging<\/a> \u2013 21 years old (created in 1992)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/im.about.com\/od\/imbasics\/a\/imhistory.htm\" title=\"IM: A Brief History\" target=\"_blank\">IM<\/a>\/Chat messaging \u2013 25 (or so) years old (IRC appeared in 1988)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/node\/2724397\" title=\"A brief history of Wi-Fi\" target=\"_blank\">wifi<\/a> \u2013 25 years old (appeared in 1988)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/yt\/about\/\" title=\"About YouTube\" target=\"_blank\">Youtube<\/a> \u2013 8 years old (founded in 2005)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/therecord\/2011\/03\/23\/134622940\/the-mp3-a-history-of-innovation-and-betrayal\" title=\"The MP3:A History of Innovation and Betrayal\" target=\"_blank\">mp3<\/a> files \u2013 19 years old (appeared in 1994)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&#038;rct=j&#038;q=&#038;esrc=s&#038;source=web&#038;cd=2&#038;ved=0CDUQFjAB&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Findividual.troweprice.com%2FstaticFiles%2FRetail%2FShared%2FPDFs%2F3D_Printing_Infographic_FINAL.pdf&#038;ei=vyjoUfblCcqnqQHS_YC4Bw&#038;usg=AFQjCNESfgSPeHzsZnrCfaGqM50ZTN4gog&#038;bvm=bv.49478099,d.aWM&#038;cad=rja\" title=\"A Brief History of 3D Printing (pdf)\" target=\"_blank\">3D Printing<\/a> \u2013 29 years old (the first working 3d printer appeared in 1984)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes people talk about &#8220;new&#8221; technology without realizing just how old it really is. I culled these items from a librarian&#8217;s personal blog. Just something to think about&#8230;what technology is out there now that we haven&#8217;t started talking about yet?? &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/12290\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[231,196,280,658],"class_list":["post-12290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-around-the-world","tag-history","tag-innovation","tag-technology","tag-web-sites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12290"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12292,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12290\/revisions\/12292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}