{"id":191915,"date":"2009-06-07T11:45:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-07T16:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/06\/07\/why-i-love-the-internet\/"},"modified":"2009-06-07T11:45:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-07T16:45:00","slug":"why-i-love-the-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/06\/07\/why-i-love-the-internet\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I Love the Internet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Because I&#8217;m on a the the by invitation only <a href=\"http:\/\/stellarparthenon.org\/\">Stellar Parthenon BBS<\/a>, discussing record album cover art that kicks ass<sup>*<\/sup>, and someone notes that he thought that he would never hear a post-punk\/new wave band called the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/bushtetras\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Bush Tetras<\/span><\/a> outside of some antique vinyl or old audio tapes, and posts a link to the <span>Youtube<\/span> for their song &#8220;Too Many Creeps&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sorry I missed them in their heyday.  This is precisely the sort of stuff that I used to rock out to when I went off to college in 1980, and if this had come up in a conversation, I would never know that they sound like.<\/p>\n<p>These little discoveries make the trolls all worthwhile.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Qmn-P4qbIwo&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Qmn-P4qbIwo&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">I still think that the Beatles &#8220;White Album&#8221; cover is the best record album cover ever.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because I&#8217;m on a the the by invitation only Stellar Parthenon BBS, discussing record album cover art that kicks ass*, and someone notes that he thought that he would never hear a post-punk\/new wave band called the Bush Tetras outside of some antique vinyl or old audio tapes, and posts a link to the Youtube &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[997,1137,1027],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-music","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191915"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}