{"id":1128,"date":"2004-08-30T10:51:30","date_gmt":"2004-08-29T23:51:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/?p=1128"},"modified":"2010-03-13T14:09:43","modified_gmt":"2010-03-13T03:09:43","slug":"the-history-of-the-internet-according-to-ahem-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/?p=1128","title":{"rendered":"The History of the Internet according to, ahem, me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.hifi-writer.com\/blog\/graphics\/geare-27.jpg\" alt=\"Geare #27, now out\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"3\" align=\"right\" \/> For some years I&#8217;ve been writing for the magazine <em>Geare<\/em>, usually just reviews of the assorted bits and pieces that I review. I was always a bit ambivalent about it because <em>Geare<\/em> is one of those &#8216;guys&#8217; magazines, in which everything purported to be of interest to men was gathered within its pages &#8212; cars, home entertainment, cameras, motorbikes &#8230; and girls. There was always a multi-page spread of some attractive young lady, scantily dressed, with just a, er, fig-leaf of relevance in the form of a product list on each page (watch by so-and-so Swiss watch-making firm, G-string by such-and-such).<\/p>\n<p>Not porn by the conventional measure of level of exposure, but certainly porn by the standard of reason for inclusion.<\/p>\n<p>Happily, several issues ago, the magazine came to the realisation that if a bloke wants porn, there&#8217;s plenty of it around from specialist publications, and most of this is much more, um, satisfying than one picture spread of a girl in pre-1960s <em>Playboy<\/em> levels of attire.<\/p>\n<p>Getting rid of the girl has had another effect, even more pleasing to me. Namely, <em>Geare<\/em> is now commissioning more stuff from me. So the new issue &#8212; #27, 2004, which should be on the newsagency shelves across Australia and New Zealand any day now &#8212; has my &#8216;Know it all&#8217; column in its usual garish yellow (all about DLP projectors), and my history of the Internet. Go get it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For some years I&#8217;ve been writing for the magazine Geare, usually just reviews of the assorted bits and pieces that I review. I was always a bit ambivalent about it because Geare is one of those &#8216;guys&#8217; magazines, in which &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/?p=1128\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1128"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1128"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1129,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1128\/revisions\/1129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}