{"id":1680,"date":"2022-05-26T15:24:16","date_gmt":"2022-05-26T19:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/?p=1680"},"modified":"2022-05-26T15:24:16","modified_gmt":"2022-05-26T19:24:16","slug":"reminiscing-pc-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/2022\/05\/26\/reminiscing-pc-tech\/","title":{"rendered":"Reminiscing PC Tech"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We are in the process of shredding our paper records from twenty years ago, stuff like tax returns, invoices, insurance papers that are no longer relevant or needed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During this paper demolition process, I came across this invoice from 24 years ago!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"769\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/05\/Screen-Shot-2022-05-26-at-3.15.23-PM-769x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1681\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/05\/Screen-Shot-2022-05-26-at-3.15.23-PM-769x1024.png 769w, https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/05\/Screen-Shot-2022-05-26-at-3.15.23-PM-225x300.png 225w, https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/05\/Screen-Shot-2022-05-26-at-3.15.23-PM-768x1023.png 768w, https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/05\/Screen-Shot-2022-05-26-at-3.15.23-PM.png 1034w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A Windows 95 PC costing over $4,500 in 1998 money. Wow. I did not realize I had such an appetite to spend that much money back then.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Notice that we were still using dial in modems back then. No high-speed internet yet. Most motherboards did not come with sound and video either. I also have to laugh at the hard drive specification. At 8.4 GB, that would be smaller than most USB flash drive you can now get at Staples.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fascinating walking down memory lane!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are in the process of shredding our paper records from twenty years ago, stuff like tax returns, invoices, insurance papers that are no longer relevant or needed. During this paper demolition process, I came across this invoice from 24 years ago! A Windows 95 PC costing over $4,500 in 1998 money. Wow. I did &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/2022\/05\/26\/reminiscing-pc-tech\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Reminiscing PC Tech&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7V6i8-r6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1680"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1682,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1680\/revisions\/1682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}