{"id":283,"date":"2007-01-03T07:36:52","date_gmt":"2007-01-03T06:36:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=283"},"modified":"2007-01-03T07:36:52","modified_gmt":"2007-01-03T06:36:52","slug":"how-you-became-the-web","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=283","title":{"rendered":"How you became the web"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;Time&#8221; magazine&#8217;s &#8220;Man of the Year&#8221; for 1982 was not a man at all but a machine &#8211; the computer. In those days, computers were in very few homes, hardly anyone had heard of the Internet, and the World Wide Web did not exist.<br \/>\nIn 1999, \u201cTime\u201d magazine&#8217;s \u201cPerson of the Year\u201d (notice the gender change) was Jeff Bezos, the founder of the e-commerce web site Amazon. By then, PCs were ubiquitous and the web commonplace but dominated by major commercial interests.<br \/>\nIn 2006, \u201cTime\u201d made its \u201cPerson of the Year\u201d choice as \u201cYou. Yes, you. You control the Information Age.\u201d For this edition of the magazine, seven million pieces of reflective Mylar were ordered for sticking on the front cover, so that you saw yourself on the page.<br \/>\nSo, what was all this about? Why did the magazine then devote  no less than 27 pages to examining how you and me are now shaping the Net?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is the start of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/Connected.html#Review34\">my latest monthly Internet column<\/a> which I&#8217;ve titled &#8220;How you became the web&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Time&#8221; magazine&#8217;s &#8220;Man of the Year&#8221; for 1982 was not a man at all but a machine &#8211; the computer. In those days, computers were in very few homes, hardly anyone had heard of the Internet, and the World Wide Web did not exist. In 1999, \u201cTime\u201d magazine&#8217;s \u201cPerson of the Year\u201d (notice the gender [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-283","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\/283","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=283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}