{"id":43,"date":"2001-03-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2001-03-26T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/mt-entry-43.html"},"modified":"2006-09-23T19:30:11","modified_gmt":"2006-09-23T19:30:11","slug":"an-interesting-as-always-article","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/2001\/03\/26\/an-interesting-as-always-article\/","title":{"rendered":"An interesting (as always) article"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting (as always) <a href=\"http:\/\/joel.editthispage.com\/stories\/storyReader$308\">article<\/a> by Joel Spolsky on supposed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.everything2.com\/index.pl?node=bloatware\">bloatware<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Version 5.0 of Microsoft&#8217;s flagship spreadsheet program Excel came out in<br \/>\n1993. It was positively huge: it required a whole 15 megabytes of hard drive<br \/>\nspace. In those days we could still remember our first 20MB PC hard drives<br \/>\n(around 1985) and so 15MB sure seemed like a lot.<\/p>\n<p>By the time Excel 2000 came out, it required a whopping 146MB &#8230; almost a<br \/>\ntenfold increase! Dang those sloppy Microsoft programmers, right?<\/p>\n<p>Wrong.&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/joel.editthispage.com\/stories\/storyReader$308\">(more&#8230;)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It includes a reference to a different article on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.littletechshoppe.com\/ns1625\/winchest.html\">historic cost of hard drives<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting (as always) article by Joel Spolsky on supposed bloatware: &#8220;Version 5.0 of Microsoft&#8217;s flagship spreadsheet program Excel came out in 1993. It was positively huge: it required a whole 15 megabytes of hard drive space. In those days we could still remember our first 20MB PC hard drives (around 1985) and so 15MB &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/2001\/03\/26\/an-interesting-as-always-article\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;An interesting (as always) article&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-techie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}