{"id":7013,"date":"2003-07-28T20:09:00","date_gmt":"2003-07-29T01:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2003\/07\/28\/7013\/"},"modified":"2018-08-02T05:49:04","modified_gmt":"2018-08-02T10:49:04","slug":"7013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2003\/07\/28\/7013\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft BBBOOOOBBBBBB!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry.  I never saw it, but I remember the nature of Microsoft&#8217;s failed user-friendly construct, Bob.  <a href=\"http:\/\/angelweaving.blogspot.com\" target=\"new\">My darling Heather<\/a> said that I was the second person to mention Bob to her recently(her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.phobia.com\" target=\"new\">formerly blue-haired boss<\/a> was first).  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seattleweekly.com\/features\/0330\/news-microsoft.php\" target=\"new\">This<\/a> <i>Seattle Weekly<\/i> story, which I saw on <a href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\" target=\"new\">\/.<\/a>, is the third source which confirms the fool thing actually existed.<\/p>\n<p>Honestly, honey, Microsoft, back around Windows 95, had this little animated character that showed you everything you wanted to know about your home computer.  Think of Clippy running whenever you turned the computer on.<\/p>\n<p>Heck&#8217;s pecs, I had the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zzap64.co.uk\/zzap7\/lcp.html\" target=\"new\">Little Computer People Discovery Kit<\/a> on my Commodore 64.  Bradley, my little computer person, looked like Bob.  <b>In 1987.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry. I never saw it, but I remember the nature of Microsoft&#8217;s failed user-friendly construct, Bob. My darling Heather said that I was the second person to mention Bob to her recently(her formerly blue-haired boss was first). This Seattle Weekly story, which I saw on \/., is the third source which confirms the fool thing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7013"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21289,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7013\/revisions\/21289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}