{"id":2141,"date":"2003-09-29T18:36:24","date_gmt":"2003-09-29T21:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/bb\/viewtopic.php?p=592"},"modified":"2010-05-08T23:27:11","modified_gmt":"2010-05-09T02:27:11","slug":"what-is-it-that-day-already","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/2003\/09\/29\/what-is-it-that-day-already\/","title":{"rendered":"What, is it that day already?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Must have been that bug I picked up in Paris. After several days of running around and feeling too tired in the evenings to post anything here – or anywhere, for that matter – I finally found time and energy to write something new. It’s a new installment in the Interesting Times<\/a> series, and I hope to post the English translation later tonight. Meanwhile, the Portuguese version can be read here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Update<\/strong>: Here’s the English version<\/a>. I can’t resist quoting this little bit of dialog:<\/p>\n

(Embratel was the government’s telecomm monopoly)<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

(sometime in 1992, trying to lease an Internet connection)<\/p>\n

Me<\/strong>: “I want an Internet connection.”<\/p>\n

Embratel Salesman<\/strong>: “OK. I suggest a 2400 or 9600 link, the price will be X cents per packet. That’s 20% of what it costs to send a TELEX. Isn’t that revolutionary?”<\/p>\n

Me<\/strong>: “A packet means how many Kbytes?”<\/p>\n

Embratel Salesman<\/strong>: “What? It’s 64 bytes per packet!”<\/p>\n

Me<\/strong>: “And if a user decides to download a larger file, say, 500 Kbytes? It’ll cost hundreds of dollars!”<\/p>\n

Embratel Salesman<\/strong>: “Don’t worry, that will never happen!”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Must have been that bug I picked up in Paris. After several days of running around and feeling too tired in the evenings to post anything here – or anywhere, for that matter – I finally found time and energy to write something new. It’s a new installment in the Interesting Times series, and I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[36],"class_list":["post-2141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc","tag-history"],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Rainer Brockerhoff","author_link":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/author\/rbrockerhoff\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1q3Zc-yx","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}