{"id":17101,"date":"2017-02-02T14:53:49","date_gmt":"2017-02-02T19:53:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=17101"},"modified":"2017-02-02T14:53:49","modified_gmt":"2017-02-02T19:53:49","slug":"things-every-hacker-once-knew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/02\/things-every-hacker-once-knew\/","title":{"rendered":"Things Every Hacker Once Knew"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.catb.org\/esr\/faqs\/things-every-hacker-once-knew\/\">Eric S. Raymond<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.catb.org\/esr\/faqs\/things-every-hacker-once-knew\/\">\n<p>This document is a collection of facts about ASCII and related technologies, notably hardware terminals and RS-232 and modems. This is lore that was at one time near-universal and is no longer. It&rsquo;s not likely to be directly useful today - until you trip over some piece of still-functioning technology where it&rsquo;s relevant (like a GPS puck), or it makes sense of some old-fart war story. Even so, it&rsquo;s good to know anyway, for cultural-literacy reasons.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eric S. Raymond: This document is a collection of facts about ASCII and related technologies, notably hardware terminals and RS-232 and modems. This is lore that was at one time near-universal and is no longer. It&rsquo;s not likely to be directly useful today - until you trip over some piece of still-functioning technology where it&rsquo;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[295,476,163],"class_list":["post-17101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-history","tag-networking","tag-unix"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17101","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=17101"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17102,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17101\/revisions\/17102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}