{"id":1666,"date":"1990-06-07T08:33:32","date_gmt":"1990-06-07T15:33:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/?page_id=1666"},"modified":"2017-04-18T10:03:52","modified_gmt":"2017-04-18T17:03:52","slug":"mikes-guide-to-growing-old-and-decrepit","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/images\/mikes-guide-to-growing-old-and-decrepit\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike&#8217;s Guide to Growing Old and Decrepit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During my dark, cynical days at Northern Illinois University, I created this Hypercard stack (converted to Flash for your viewing pleasure) in 1990, at the then-fledgling &#8220;Electronic Media&#8221; emphasis of the design program there. This was created on a Macintosh Classic, a $4,000 black-and-white expensive brick-like computing device, state-of-the-art then&#8230; until the 386s came along. Please note the careful, intuitive detail with the interface design, and hold all applause.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"514\" height=\"324\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/growingold.swf\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"514\" height=\"324\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/growingold.swf\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p class=\"facebook\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share.php?u=https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/images\/mikes-guide-to-growing-old-and-decrepit\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share on Facebook\">Share on Facebook<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During my dark, cynical days at Northern Illinois University, I created this Hypercard stack (converted to Flash for your viewing pleasure) in 1990, at the then-fledgling &#8220;Electronic Media&#8221; emphasis of the design program there. This was created on a Macintosh Classic, a $4,000 black-and-white expensive brick-like computing device, state-of-the-art then&#8230; until the 386s came along. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/images\/mikes-guide-to-growing-old-and-decrepit\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mike&#8217;s Guide to Growing Old and Decrepit&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"facebook\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share.php?u=https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/images\/mikes-guide-to-growing-old-and-decrepit\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share on Facebook\">Share on Facebook<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12213,"parent":171,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1666","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1666"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12214,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1666\/revisions\/12214"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/171"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}