{"id":2820,"date":"2010-06-21T20:24:38","date_gmt":"2010-06-21T19:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=2820"},"modified":"2010-06-23T15:05:26","modified_gmt":"2010-06-23T14:05:26","slug":"nine-things-to-understand-about-the-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=2820","title":{"rendered":"Nine things to understand about the Internet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s hard to believe but it&#8217;s only 17 years since the web went mainstream and yet today about 1.8 billion people use the Internet every day.<\/p>\n<p>I was a relatively late user of the Net, starting only in 1998 as I&#8217;ve explained <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/FAQ.html#Computing\">here<\/a>. But now I&#8217;m a massive user with a long-standing web site and two blogs.<\/p>\n<p>In this weekend&#8217;s &#8220;Observer&#8221;, John Naughton set out<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/technology\/2010\/jun\/20\/internet-everything-need-to-know\"> nine points<\/a> to aid an understanding of what is happening on and to the Net.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s hard to believe but it&#8217;s only 17 years since the web went mainstream and yet today about 1.8 billion people use the Internet every day. I was a relatively late user of the Net, starting only in 1998 as I&#8217;ve explained here. But now I&#8217;m a massive user with a long-standing web site and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2820"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2865,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2820\/revisions\/2865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}