{"id":586,"date":"2008-05-06T22:55:17","date_gmt":"2008-05-07T05:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/?p=586"},"modified":"2008-05-06T22:55:17","modified_gmt":"2008-05-07T05:55:17","slug":"a83-floppy-disk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/?p=586","title":{"rendered":"#a83 :: Floppy disk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/0506081.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/0506081-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"ENLARGE\" title=\"ENLARGE\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-588\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"3\" srcset=\"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/0506081-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/0506081-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/0506081.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>A mix of no-nonsense design and obsolescence incarnate, <a href=\"http:\/\/viagrasaleonline.net\" style=\"text-decoration:none;color:#676c6c\">symptoms<\/a>  this is a perfectly made object lesson in hubris:<\/p>\n<p>The 3.5-inch floppy was <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Floppy_disk\">designed<\/a> to last for decades &#8211;  and outstripped within a mere  few years by bigger, <a href=\"http:\/\/cialis-buy-online.net\" title=\"buy\" style=\"text-decoration:none;color:#676c6c\">page<\/a>  faster, even-more-durable flash memory.<\/p>\n<p>What are they good for now? Coasters. Table-levelers. Impromptu office Frisbees. And speculations on what the dot-com boom of the late 1990s would have been without the ability to carry a sheaf of documents or photos around on a lightweight, plastic facsimile of your computer hard-drive that fit into your shirt pocket.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A mix of no-nonsense design and obsolescence incarnate, symptoms this is a perfectly made object lesson in hubris: The 3.5-inch floppy was designed to last for decades &#8211; and outstripped within a mere few years by bigger, page faster, even-more-durable flash memory. What are they good for now? Coasters. Table-levelers. Impromptu office Frisbees. And speculations [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artifact","category-part","category-symbol"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}