{"id":1975,"date":"2010-04-14T14:09:42","date_gmt":"2010-04-14T14:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/index.php\/2010\/04\/14\/2010-4-14-world-goes-round-in-circles-html\/"},"modified":"2010-04-14T14:09:42","modified_gmt":"2010-04-14T14:09:42","slug":"2010-4-14-world-goes-round-in-circles-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/2010-4-14-world-goes-round-in-circles-html\/","title":{"rendered":"World Goes Round In Circles"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ampex.com\/news\/history.html?start=30\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bobtherieau.com\/images\/blog\/ampex_VR303.jpg\" alt=\"Ladies and gentlemen, that's the joy of pure, life-like video quality...\" width=\"220\" \/><\/a><br \/><span><em>Nothing tape-delayed about her excitement!<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Friends,<\/p>\n<p>On this day in 1956, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ampex.com\/news\/history.html?start=30\" target=\"_blank\">Ampex<\/a> demonstrated the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ampex\" target=\"_blank\">first videotape recorder<\/a> at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nabshow.com\/2010\/default.asp\" target=\"_blank\">NAB show<\/a> in Chicago (<em>what? not in Vegas? -ed<\/em> Las Vegas hadn&#8217;t been invented yet.). Immediately following this development, people on the west coast started losing a lot of sleep. Soon after that, Apple released the iPad so people could watch movies and television shows anywhere. (<em>um, there were some important developments in between those two inventions, weren&#8217;t there? -ed<\/em> I think so, but mostly pet rocks and fuel injection. It&#8217;s all a blur.)<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; bob<\/p>\n<p>P.S. Yes, I know the picture isn&#8217;t of a VXR-1000. I only found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tech-notes.tv\/History&amp;Trivia\/Television%20Recording\/Ampex\/v1kair.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">one good one<\/a> and I didn&#8217;t think it&#8217;d scale very easily.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nothing tape-delayed about her excitement! Friends, On this day in 1956, Ampex demonstrated the first videotape recorder at the NAB show in Chicago (what? not in Vegas? -ed Las Vegas hadn&#8217;t been invented yet.). Immediately following this development, people on the west coast started losing a lot of sleep. Soon after that, Apple released the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/2010-4-14-world-goes-round-in-circles-html\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;World Goes Round In Circles&#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_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[32],"class_list":["post-1975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-tech"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1975\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}