{"id":3595,"date":"2017-07-08T23:44:29","date_gmt":"2017-07-08T14:44:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/?p=3595"},"modified":"2017-07-08T23:44:29","modified_gmt":"2017-07-08T14:44:29","slug":"pots-and-56k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/pots-and-56k\/","title":{"rendered":"POTS and 56K"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It did not seem that long ago that I had Plain Old Telephone Service and a 56k modem. I remember when it took minutes to download megabytes of data. That was when you were lucky and it went through. Other times there was a problem and you had to start the process again. Now we have pages that load fast. The old days photos would take maybe 10s of seconds to display. \u00a0What takes a minute today would have taken hours before.<\/p>\n<p>Does anyone else have fond memories of the pee-pee-po that the old modems made as they connected to that other computer?<\/p>\n<div class=\"pld-like-dislike-wrap pld-template-1\">\r\n    <div class=\"pld-like-wrap  pld-common-wrap\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-login.php\" class=\"pld-like-trigger pld-like-dislike-trigger  \" title=\"\" data-post-id=\"3595\" data-trigger-type=\"like\" data-restriction=\"user\" data-already-liked=\"0\">\r\n                        <i class=\"fas fa-thumbs-up\"><\/i>\r\n                <\/a>\r\n    <span class=\"pld-like-count-wrap pld-count-wrap\">    <\/span>\r\n<\/div><div class=\"pld-dislike-wrap  pld-common-wrap\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-login.php\" class=\"pld-dislike-trigger pld-like-dislike-trigger  \" title=\"\" data-post-id=\"3595\" data-trigger-type=\"dislike\" data-restriction=\"user\" data-already-liked=\"0\">\r\n                        <i class=\"fas fa-thumbs-down\"><\/i>\r\n                <\/a>\r\n    <span class=\"pld-dislike-count-wrap pld-count-wrap\"><\/span>\r\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It did not seem that long ago that I had Plain Old Telephone Service and a 56k modem. I remember when it took minutes to download megabytes of data. That was when you were lucky and it went through. Other times there was a problem and you had to start the process again. Now we have pages that load fast. The old days photos would take maybe 10s of seconds to display. \u00a0What takes a minute today would have taken hours before.<\/p>\n<p>Does anyone else have fond memories of the pee-pee-po that the old modems made as they connected to that other computer?<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-login.php\" class=\"pld-like-trigger pld-like-dislike-trigger \" title=\"\" data-post-id=\"3595\" data-trigger-type=\"like\" data-restriction=\"user\" data-already-liked=\"0\"> <i class=\"fas fa-thumbs-up\"><\/i> <\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-login.php\" class=\"pld-dislike-trigger pld-like-dislike-trigger \" title=\"\" data-post-id=\"3595\" data-trigger-type=\"dislike\" data-restriction=\"user\" data-already-liked=\"0\"> <i ... <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/pots-and-56k\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5805,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[145,144],"class_list":["post-3595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-56k","tag-pots"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5805"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3595"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3596,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3595\/revisions\/3596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}