{"id":2215,"date":"2008-09-09T22:45:50","date_gmt":"2008-09-10T03:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/?p=2215"},"modified":"2008-09-09T22:45:50","modified_gmt":"2008-09-10T03:45:50","slug":"kane-kramer-inventor-of-the-digital-audio-player","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=2215","title":{"rendered":"Kane Kramer: Inventor of the Digital Audio Player?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/ixi.jpg' title='Image of Drawing'><img src='http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/ixi.thumbnail.jpg' alt='Image of Drawing' align=\"left\" vspace=\"5\" hspace=\"5\"\/><\/a>I came across a story that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kanekramer.com\/default.htm\">Kane Kramer<\/a>, and English inventor, invented the digital audio player and patented it in 1979 though he lost the patent. Here is an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/technology\/2004\/sep\/30\/interviews.onlinesupplement\">interview with the Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>No. I like the iPod, but it feels a bit unfair to have to buy one. I could show you my drawings from 1979-82 and there is an iPod &#8211; same size, shape. It feels like mine.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Kane apparently testified for Apple when they were being sued by others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I came across a story that Kane Kramer, and English inventor, invented the digital audio player and patented it in 1979 though he lost the patent. Here is an interview with the Guardian. No. I like the iPod, but it feels a bit unfair to have to buy one. I could show you my drawings &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=2215\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Kane Kramer: Inventor of the Digital Audio Player?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,14,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history-of-computing-and-multimedia","category-multimedia-theory","category-streaming-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}