by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n
It seems the last time the title question was asked was when two dinosaurs were chatting while sinking into a tar pit.<\/strong><\/p>\n I didn’t know the answer to the title question for any of the computers that I use everyday. At one time, not too long ago, that was the preeminent question to ask and know about any computer. I remember when the answer was “ten Megabytes.”<\/p>\n Today, who knows and who cares? All our stuff is stored in a cloud here or there or somewhere. There are a few young dinosaurs I know like my son who has a personal copy of just about every song ever recorded by man on one of his hard disks. He is a young something-or-other that puts him on the outskirts of humanity or some such worthwhile group.<\/p>\n Our photos are on Facebook. Our music is on iTunes. Our words are on WordPress. Everything, in one form or another, is on DropBox or Google Drive (itself a dinosaur having been replaced by Google Docs and Google Sheets and Google something-or-other).<\/p>\n Somebody owns the hard disks that store our lives and aspirations. I have no idea how big those hard disks are or where they are or if they will still be spinning next week.<\/p>\n I miss those good old 360KiloByte floppy disks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" by Dwayne Phillips It seems the last time the title question was asked was when two dinosaurs were chatting while sinking into a tar pit. I didn’t know the answer to the title question for any of the computers that I use everyday. At one time, not too long ago, that was the preeminent question […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,3],"tags":[143,126],"class_list":["post-1764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-change","category-technology","tag-change","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1764"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1765,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1764\/revisions\/1765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}