{"id":2793,"date":"2020-04-15T14:36:04","date_gmt":"2020-04-15T19:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=2793"},"modified":"2020-04-15T15:01:56","modified_gmt":"2020-04-15T20:01:56","slug":"benj-writes-history-at-how-to-geek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/2793\/benj-writes-history-at-how-to-geek","title":{"rendered":"Benj Writes History at How-To Geek"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/apple2_header_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"centered shadow size-large wp-image-2796\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/apple2_header_2-450x208.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"208\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/apple2_header_2-450x208.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/apple2_header_2-200x92.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/apple2_header_2-400x185.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/apple2_header_2.jpg 650w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Back in February, I landed a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/benjedwards\/status\/1226892118901370880?s=20\">full-time job<\/a> at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\">How-To Geek<\/a> as a Staff Writer. It&#8217;s been a great gig, and I am enjoying helping people with tricky (and sometimes very simple) tech problems.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve written a lot about iPhone, iPad, Mac, Windows 10, and the Nintendo Switch so far, but HTG also lets me do a history feature about once a week. That way I can keep flexing my tech nostalgia muscles. Here are the history pieces I&#8217;ve done so far:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/658287\/even-25-years-later-the-iomega-zip-is-unforgettable\/\">Even 25 Years Later, the Iomega Zip Is Unforgettable<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/659611\/what-is-the-konami-code-and-how-do-you-use-it\/\">What Is the Konami Code, and How Do You Use it?<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/661428\/text-based-vr-explore-the-pioneering-world-of-mushes\/\">Text-Based VR: Explore the Pioneering World of MUSHes<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/663104\/how-apples-2020-ipad-pro-compares-to-the-first-trackpad-mac\/\">How Apple\u2019s 2020 iPad Pro Compares to the 1994 Trackpad Mac<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/659450\/how-to-write-an-apple-ii-basic-program-in-your-web-browser\/\">How to Write an Apple II BASIC Program in Your Web Browser<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/665235\/how-to-play-classic-doom-in-widescreen-on-your-pc-or-mac\/\">How to Play Classic \u201cDoom\u201d in Widescreen on Your PC or Mac<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/667054\/the-best-retro-easter-eggs-in-windows-and-microsoft-office\/\">The Best Retro Easter Eggs in Windows and Microsoft Office<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Expect much more where that came from, so keep an eye on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/author\/benjedwards\/\">my How-To Geek page<\/a>, and you&#8217;ll see new ones pop up from time to time.<\/p>\n<p>I hope everybody out there is doing well.\u00a0 This blog isn&#8217;t dead yet &#8212; I still plan to post some more Retro Scans some day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in February, I landed a full-time job at How-To Geek as a Staff Writer. It&#8217;s been a great gig, and I am enjoying helping people with tricky (and sometimes very simple) tech problems. I&#8217;ve written a lot about iPhone, iPad, Mac, Windows 10, and the Nintendo Switch so far, but HTG also lets me [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,37,7,13,35,21,9,5,10],"tags":[61,377,1681,1677,1674,1679,135,1678,1250,1240,1682,1676,395,1680],"class_list":["post-2793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bbs-history","category-computer-games","category-computer-info-and-history","category-video-game-info-and-history","category-internet-history","category-news-current-events","category-retrogaming","category-vcg-announcements","category-computers","tag-apple-ii","tag-doom","tag-easter-eggs","tag-history-articles","tag-how-to-geek","tag-iomega","tag-ipad","tag-konami-code","tag-microsoft-office","tag-mushes","tag-powerbook-520","tag-staff-writer","tag-windows","tag-zip-drive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2793"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2804,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2793\/revisions\/2804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}