{"id":2318,"date":"2017-05-16T22:59:29","date_gmt":"2017-05-17T05:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/?p=2318"},"modified":"2017-05-16T22:59:29","modified_gmt":"2017-05-17T05:59:29","slug":"wheres-the-dos-prompt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/2017\/05\/16\/wheres-the-dos-prompt\/","title":{"rendered":"Where&#8217;s the DOS prompt?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I grew up with Vic-20, C-64, and the DOS prompt. \u00a0My only real motivation, of course, was to play games. \u00a0I recall practicing rhythmic breathing at dinner soas to finish ahead of my bros and race downstairs to be the first to get back on &#8220;Jumpman&#8221;. \u00a0I grew up a bit, learned a smidge of programming and later left for England on an undergraduate exchange. \u00a0Somehow, in the 10 months I was gone, the entire continent switched to Windows and Mac. \u00a0Upon return, I found that my understanding of computer systems was radically compromised.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Where&#8217;s the DOS prompt?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I never truly recovered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I grew up with Vic-20, C-64, and the DOS prompt. \u00a0My only real motivation, of course, was to play games. \u00a0I recall practicing rhythmic breathing at dinner soas to finish ahead of my bros and race downstairs to be the first to get back on &#8220;Jumpman&#8221;. \u00a0I grew up a bit, learned a smidge of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49895,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1669384],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-auto-e-graphy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/49895"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2318"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2319,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2318\/revisions\/2319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}