{"id":281,"date":"2009-02-27T15:15:03","date_gmt":"2009-02-27T19:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/?p=281"},"modified":"2009-04-24T16:01:34","modified_gmt":"2009-04-24T20:01:34","slug":"how-old-are-thumb-drives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/2009\/02\/how-old-are-thumb-drives\/","title":{"rendered":"How old are thumb drives?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, Charles Babbage invented the first mechanical computer&#8230;<br \/>\nIt wasn&#8217;t actually constructed into 1991, but still the plans were from 1871&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Punch cards are from 1725 (Basile Bouchon &amp; Jean-Baptiste Falcon), but here&#8217;s proof of a thumb drive from that era&#8230;<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 0px initial initial;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/c765ab29-cd15-4f42-8f96-4cad36472359.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"C765AB29-CD15-4F42-8F96-4CAD36472359.jpg\" width=\"490\" height=\"367\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Okay, maybe proof is too strong of a word, but still&#8230;  It&#8217;s a neat idea..  A &#8220;thumb drive&#8221; for punch cards&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>From Girl Genius!  http:\/\/www.girlgeniusonline.com\/gallery\/cosplay.php<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, Charles Babbage invented the first mechanical computer&#8230; It wasn&#8217;t actually constructed into 1991, but still the plans were from 1871&#8230; Punch cards are from 1725 (Basile Bouchon &amp; Jean-Baptiste Falcon), but here&#8217;s proof of a thumb drive from that era&#8230; Okay, maybe proof is too strong of a word, but still&#8230; It&#8217;s a neat <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/2009\/02\/how-old-are-thumb-drives\/\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":280,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[12,5,11],"tags":[251,213,239,203],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The constant WPCACHEHOME must be set in the file wp-config.php and point at the WP Super Cache plugin directory. -->