{"id":5298,"date":"2008-02-28T15:17:57","date_gmt":"2008-02-28T15:17:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groonk.net\/blog\/?p=5298"},"modified":"2010-08-26T06:41:26","modified_gmt":"2010-08-26T12:41:26","slug":"geek-networking-of-the-1990s-was-quaint-televised-canadian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2008\/02\/geek-networking-of-the-1990s-was-quaint-televised-canadian\/","title":{"rendered":"Geek Networking of the 1990s was Quaint, Televised, Canadian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Explore the origins of Sci Fi fandom. See how little Neil Gaiman has changed in 15 years. Recoil at the (usual) curtness of Harlan Ellison.  Be amazed by the teenaged Garth Ennis.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><object width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/MNWcq7xijxU\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/MNWcq7xijxU\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><\/embed><\/object> <\/div>\n<p>Chuckle at 90s TV graphics.  I could probably do a rather long essay on how internet graphics changed the visual design landscape of television. I&#8217;ll save that for another obsession.<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/journal.neilgaiman.com\/2008\/02\/fans-part-two.html\" class=\"external external_icon\">neil gaiman<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MNWcq7xijxU\" class=\"external external_icon\">Prisoners of gravity: Fans<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/journal.neilgaiman.com\/2008\/02\/secret-master-of-science-fiction.html\" class=\"external external_icon\">a response to neil gaiman&#8217;s sharing of the Fans You Tube by the creator of Fans<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Explore the origins of Sci Fi fandom. See how little Neil Gaiman has changed in 15 years. Recoil at the (usual) curtness of Harlan Ellison. Be amazed by the teenaged Garth Ennis. Chuckle at 90s TV graphics. I could probably do a rather long essay on how internet graphics changed the visual design landscape of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,49,71,17,72],"tags":[1009,31,4946,3134,3133,574,1240,523],"class_list":["post-5298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-comics","category-documentary","category-history","category-tee-vee","tag-1990s","tag-culture","tag-documentary","tag-garth-ennis","tag-harlan-ellison","tag-neil-gaiman","tag-oh-canada","tag-prisoners-of-gravity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5298"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13235,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5298\/revisions\/13235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}