{"id":304,"date":"2007-05-07T12:25:56","date_gmt":"2007-05-07T17:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=304"},"modified":"2007-05-07T12:44:25","modified_gmt":"2007-05-07T17:44:25","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-vintage-computer-t-shirts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/304\/retro-scan-of-the-week-vintage-computer-t-shirts","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">Retro Scan of the Week:<\/span> Vintage Computer T-Shirts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"caption\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/pc_tshirts_1_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/pc_tshirts_1_small.jpg\" alt=\"Byte my Bits - Vintage Computer T-Shirts\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption_text\">What &#8212; you think cheeky nerd T-shirts are a recent invention?  They&#8217;ve been here from the start, my friends.<\/p>\n<p>Early personal computer magazines typically carried at least one ad for computer-themed T-shirts somewhere in each issue, usually in the back.  These particular examples from 1983 tout apparel plastered with phrases such as &#8220;Byte my Bits,&#8221; &#8220;User Friendly,&#8221; &#8220;PC Compatible,&#8221; and the perennial classic, &#8220;Have You Hugged Your Programmer Today?&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"linebreak\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/pc_tshirts_2_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/pc_tshirts_2_small.jpg\" alt=\"Vintage Computer T-Shirts\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hey look &#8212; it&#8217;s Linda!  Alternatives to the shirts pictured above include &#8220;Software&#8221; and &#8220;Hard Disk Driven.&#8221;  Early computer enthusiasts were a desperate, sad lot indeed.<\/p>\n<p><small><em>If you use these images on your site, please support &#8220;Retro Scan of the Week&#8221; by giving us obvious credit for the original scan and entry.  Thanks.<\/em><\/small><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What &#8212; you think cheeky nerd T-shirts are a recent invention? They&#8217;ve been here from the start, my friends. Early personal computer magazines typically carried at least one ad for computer-themed T-shirts somewhere in each issue, usually in the back. These particular examples from 1983 tout apparel plastered with phrases such as &#8220;Byte my Bits,&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,24,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-info-and-history","category-humor","category-retro-scan-of-the-week"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304","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=304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}