{"id":794,"date":"2011-08-15T11:06:40","date_gmt":"2011-08-15T16:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=794"},"modified":"2011-08-15T11:20:35","modified_gmt":"2011-08-15T16:20:35","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-number-300","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/794\/retro-scan-of-the-week-number-300","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">[ Retro Scan of the Week ]<\/span> Number 300"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/rsotw_kindle_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/rsotw_kindle_small.jpg\" alt=\"Vintage Computing and Gaming - The First Retro Scan of the Week on an Amazon Kindle - 2006\" class=\"centered\"\/><\/a><span class=\"freecaption\"><em>Bet you&#8217;ve never scanned a website before.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>This week&#8217;s Retro Scan happens to be the 300th entry of this series that I&#8217;ve posted since 2006.  We already <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/737\" target=\"_blank\">celebrated the 5th anniversary of RSTOW<\/a> back in January, so this isn&#8217;t quite as exciting of a milestone.<\/p>\n<p>Still, I thought I&#8217;d take this opportunity to do something once thought impossible: I scanned the <em>Vintage Computing and Gaming<\/em> website.  More specifically, I scanned an Amazon Kindle showing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/57\" target=\"_blank\">the very first Retro Scan of the Week post<\/a> from back in January 2006.<\/p>\n<p>Did I scan something retro?  Not really, but I have the feeling that this Kindle, with its monochrome e-paper screen, will seem very quaint in just a few years.  The 2006 RSOTW post itself is already over five years old, which feels like an eternity in Internet time.<\/p>\n<p>Will there be 300 more Retro Scans?  Only time will tell.<\/p>\n<p><center><em>[ From Vintage Computing and Gaming, January 2006 ]<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussion Topic of the Week:<\/strong> Do you think e-readers will permanently replace paper books?  If so, how soon?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bet you&#8217;ve never scanned a website before. This week&#8217;s Retro Scan happens to be the 300th entry of this series that I&#8217;ve posted since 2006. We already celebrated the 5th anniversary of RSTOW back in January, so this isn&#8217;t quite as exciting of a milestone. Still, I thought I&#8217;d take this opportunity to do something [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,21,27,26,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-info-and-history","category-news-current-events","category-regular_features","category-retro-scan-of-the-week","category-computers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794","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=794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}