{"id":6052,"date":"2015-03-19T20:00:44","date_gmt":"2015-03-20T03:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.digilentinc.com\/?p=6052"},"modified":"2021-06-16T16:33:35","modified_gmt":"2021-06-16T23:33:35","slug":"throwback-thursday-children-on-old-computers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/throwback-thursday-children-on-old-computers\/","title":{"rendered":"Throwback Thursday: Children on Old Computers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the rapidly changing world of technology, the giant computers of yore are particularly befuddling to the younger generations who weren&#8217;t around concurrently with those computers. Children were shown computers from the 1970s and reacted to them.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"735\" height=\"413\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PF7EpEnglgk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Imagining a world without internet and having to program every operation leaves most children aghast. Floppy disks leave them astounded, and having to use a desk keeps them astonished.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>What was your first experience with computers? What tech predates you and leaves you befuddled?<\/p>\n<div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-left'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style6 like-6052 jlk' data-task='like' data-post_id='6052' data-nonce='ac068a413b' rel='nofollow'><img src='https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post-pro\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Like' \/><span class='lc-6052 lc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div><div class='action-unlike'><a class='unlbg-style6 unlike-6052 jlk' data-task='unlike' data-post_id='6052' data-nonce='ac068a413b' rel='nofollow'><img src='https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post-pro\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Unlike' \/><span class='unlc-6052 unlc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div> <div class='status-6052 status align-left'>Be the 1st to vote.<\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the rapidly changing world of technology, the giant computers of yore are particularly befuddling to the younger generations who weren&#8217;t around concurrently with those computers. Children were shown computers from the 1970s and reacted to them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":6056,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1553],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[4464],"class_list":["post-6052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-around-digilent"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/kid-reacts-old-computer.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":4464,"user_id":7,"is_guest":0,"slug":"amber_mear","display_name":"Amber Mear","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/d0fc56ab4035f79884675bde2a948e84c1d14dd33b730b4c142dde6f1a962395?s=96&d=mm&r=g","1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":"","9":"","10":""}],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6052"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=6052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}