{"id":522,"date":"2005-10-05T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-06T03:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/2005\/10\/05\/teh-internets\/"},"modified":"2005-10-05T22:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-10-06T03:00:00","slug":"teh-internets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/2005\/10\/05\/teh-internets\/","title":{"rendered":"Teh Internets"},"content":{"rendered":"

If there is at least one person in your life whom you consider a close friend, and whom you would not have met without the internet, post this sentence in your journal.<\/p>\n

So, yeah – I guess ought to count as a “close friend”!<\/p>\n

I met Rob in Dallas, through a Usenet newsgroup called dfw.singles.<\/p>\n

I wouldn't have been in Dallas if I hadn't have moved there because of a guy I met on the 'net.<\/p>\n

I wouldn't have been on Usenet if it hadn't have been for that same guy.<\/p>\n

On a related note, it's obvious that I'm warped because my introduction to Usenet was alt.religion.kibology. In fact, I made my very first post there as well.<\/p>\n

Now it's time to go to bed and curl up with a book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If there is at least one person in your life whom you consider a close friend, and whom you would not have met without the internet, post this sentence in your journal. So, yeah – I guess ought to count as a “close friend”! I met Rob in Dallas, through a Usenet newsgroup called dfw.singles. I wouldn't have been in Dallas if I hadn't have moved there because of a guy I met on the 'net. I wouldn't have been on Usenet if it hadn't have been for that same guy. On a related note, it's obvious that I'm warped because my introduction to Usenet was alt.religion.kibology. In fact, I made my very first post there as well. Now it's time to go to bed and curl up with a book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}