{"id":1154,"date":"2005-12-20T13:59:38","date_gmt":"2005-12-20T17:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2005\/12\/20\/info-mac-retires\/"},"modified":"2016-07-21T16:15:26","modified_gmt":"2016-07-21T20:15:26","slug":"info-mac-retires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2005\/12\/20\/info-mac-retires\/","title":{"rendered":"Info-Mac Retires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/db.tidbits.com\/getbits.acgi?tbart=08375\">Adam Engst<\/a>:\r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/db.tidbits.com\/getbits.acgi?tbart=08375\">\r\n<p>\r\nTo all good things there must come an end, and it is with some sadness that I officially retire the Info-Mac Network. Nominally, I&rsquo;ve been president of the non-profit volunteer organization since incorporating it in 2000, but in reality I&rsquo;ve been only one of many volunteers who have helped keep Info-Mac running over the years. But over the past year or so, it&rsquo;s become clear both that Info-Mac has outlived most of its utility and that it&rsquo;s not worth investing yet more time, effort, and money in keeping it going longer.<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n\r\n<p>\r\nThis will probably affect most people about as much as the <a href=\"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2005\/12\/19\/mac-internet-explorer\/\">official end of Mac IE<\/a>, which is to say not very much. But let&rsquo;s remember how great <a href=\"http:\/\/www.info-mac.org\">Info-Mac<\/a>, like IE 5, was in its day. In 1992, \r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thoushalt.net\">Alex Reed<\/a> introduced me to MacTCP, <a href=\"http:\/\/fetchsoftworks.com\">Fetch<\/a>, and the archive, that&rsquo;s how I really discovered the world of Mac software.\r\n<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adam Engst: To all good things there must come an end, and it is with some sadness that I officially retire the Info-Mac Network. Nominally, I&rsquo;ve been president of the non-profit volunteer organization since incorporating it in 2000, but in reality I&rsquo;ve been only one of many volunteers who have helped keep Info-Mac running over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1154"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15296,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1154\/revisions\/15296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}