{"id":6555,"date":"2017-07-12T02:35:30","date_gmt":"2017-07-12T02:35:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=6555"},"modified":"2017-07-12T02:35:30","modified_gmt":"2017-07-12T02:35:30","slug":"what-its-like-to-use-an-original-macintosh-in-2017-the-atlantic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=6555","title":{"rendered":"What It&#8217;s Like to Use an Original Macintosh in 2017 &#8211; The Atlantic"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2017\/05\/mac-attack\/527979\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/lead_960-1.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>The Internet Archive\u2019s new software emulator will take you back to 1984.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From Twitter again (channelled <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JustinTrudeau\/status\/873600926128504832\">from Justin Trudeau<\/a>) is a story in the Atlantic about the Internet Archive&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.archive.org\/2017\/04\/16\/early-macintosh-emulation-comes-to-the-archive\/\">early Macintosh emulator<\/a>,\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2017\/05\/mac-attack\/527979\/\">What It&#8217;s Like to Use an Original Macintosh in 2017.<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>The emulator comes with a curated set of apps and games, including Dark Castle, which I remember my mother liking. (I was more fond of\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/D%C3%A9j%C3%A0_Vu_(video_game)\">D\u00e9j\u00e0 Vu<\/a>.<\/em>) Here is what MacPaint 2.0 looked like back then.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/MacPaint.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6558\" src=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/MacPaint-300x201.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/MacPaint-300x201.png 300w, https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/MacPaint-768x514.png 768w, https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/MacPaint-1024x685.png 1024w, https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/MacPaint.png 1028w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m amazed they can emulate the Mac OS in JavaScript. I&#8217;m also amazed at the community of people coming together to share old Mac software, manuals, and books with the IA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Internet Archive\u2019s new software emulator will take you back to 1984. From Twitter again (channelled from Justin Trudeau) is a story in the Atlantic about the Internet Archive&#8217;s early Macintosh emulator,\u00a0What It&#8217;s Like to Use an Original Macintosh in 2017.\u00a0The emulator comes with a curated set of apps and games, including Dark Castle, which &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=6555\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What It&#8217;s Like to Use an Original Macintosh in 2017 &#8211; The Atlantic<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-games","category-history-of-computing-and-multimedia","category-interface-design-and-usability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6555","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6555"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6561,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6555\/revisions\/6561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}