{"id":708,"date":"2010-11-02T14:41:24","date_gmt":"2010-11-02T19:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=708"},"modified":"2010-11-02T18:23:59","modified_gmt":"2010-11-02T23:23:59","slug":"five-years-of-vcg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/708\/five-years-of-vcg","title":{"rendered":"Five Years of <em>VC&#038;G<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/sitewide\/vcg_piclogo_small.jpg\" alt=\"Vintage Computing and Gaming Logo\" class=\"alignright\"\/>Five years ago today, I published my first post on <em>Vintage Computing and Gaming<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The funny thing is that when I started this blog in 2005, I had no idea I would still be doing it five years later &#8212; or that it would become the nucleus of a career in writing.  <em>No idea.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s amazing how life can guide you in new and unexpected directions.<\/p>\n<p>So what this anniversary <em>really<\/em> means that my career as a professional writer is now five years old.  I&#8217;ve <a href=\"http:\/\/www.benjedwards.com\/works.html\" target=\"_blank\">written for a dozen or so<\/a> web and print publications over the last five years, and I still enjoy every minute of it.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Since the world is so list-based these days, I thought I&#8217;d share five of my favorite <em>VC&#038;G<\/em>-related moments.  These are just off the top of my head, so the list is by no means definitive:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>5. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/57\" target=\"_blank\">Starting &#8220;Retro Scan of the Week&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<li>4. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/709\" target=\"_blank\">Thinking up Halloween costumes<\/a><\/li>\n<li>3. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/703\" target=\"_blank\">Getting paid to take things apart<\/a><\/li>\n<li>2. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/223\" target=\"_blank\">Meeting Steve Wozniak<\/a><\/li>\n<li>1. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/428\" target=\"_blank\">Sitting next to the inventor of video games on an airplane<\/a> (more on that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/429\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Man, those were some good times.  I don&#8217;t see any reason why I won&#8217;t still be doing this in five years, so we&#8217;ll just have to wait and see what happens.  All the retrogazing I did <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/601\" target=\"_blank\">last year<\/a> still applies.<\/p>\n<p>And now for some statistics.  There are currently 588 posts and 6252 comments on <em>VC&#038;G<\/em>.  That&#8217;s an average of about 3.42 comments a day since November 2nd, 2005, and a whopping 10.63 per post.  Not too shabby.  Keep it up!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussion Topic of the Year:<\/strong>  If I published a book of <em>VC&#038;G<\/em> blog material, would you buy it?  If not, what would it have to include for you to buy it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five years ago today, I published my first post on Vintage Computing and Gaming. The funny thing is that when I started this blog in 2005, I had no idea I would still be doing it five years later &#8212; or that it would become the nucleus of a career in writing. No idea. It&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-current-events","category-vcg-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708","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=708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}