{"id":5173,"date":"2010-02-10T07:37:38","date_gmt":"2010-02-10T12:37:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/?p=5173"},"modified":"2010-02-10T07:37:38","modified_gmt":"2010-02-10T12:37:38","slug":"beacoup-fish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/10\/beacoup-fish\/","title":{"rendered":"beacoup fish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5174\" title=\"Screenshot-E-UAE-fish\" src=\"http:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Screenshot-E-UAE-fish.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"511\" height=\"442\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Screenshot-E-UAE-fish.png 511w, https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Screenshot-E-UAE-fish-160x138.png 160w, https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Screenshot-E-UAE-fish-320x276.png 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 511px) 100vw, 511px\" \/>I just downloaded the first 1000 <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fred_Fish\">Fish Disks<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/aminet.net\/misc\/fish\">Aminet<\/a>. Back in the day, that would have cost me \u00c2\u00a33000, and would have involved serious floppy storage. As is, it took just a couple of hours.<\/p>\n<p>I used to write for short-lived PD Shopper magazine. There was one flaw in the business plan; trying to sell a magazine to people who were naturally inclined to be cheap. As soon as shovelware CD-ROMs became available, PD Shopper vanished.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just downloaded the first 1000 Fish Disks from Aminet. Back in the day, that would have cost me \u00c2\u00a33000, and would have involved serious floppy storage. As is, it took just a couple of hours. I used to write for short-lived PD Shopper magazine. There was one flaw in the business plan; trying to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[1912,2083,2082],"class_list":["post-5173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-suck","tag-amiga","tag-fred_fish","tag-pd"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-1lr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5173"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5180,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5173\/revisions\/5180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}