{"id":45998,"date":"2020-04-08T09:04:09","date_gmt":"2020-04-08T09:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/?p=45998"},"modified":"2020-04-08T09:04:09","modified_gmt":"2020-04-08T09:04:09","slug":"my-linux-story-from-8-bit-enthusiast-to-unix-sysadmin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/?p=45998","title":{"rendered":"My Linux Story: From 8-bit enthusiast to Unix sysadmin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/1980s-computer-yearbook.png\" width=\"520\" height=\"292\" alt=\"Person typing on a 1980's computer\" title=\"Person typing on a 1980's computer\"><\/p>\n<p>It all started in the mid-1980s with an <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Apple_IIc\" target=\"_blank\">Apple ][c<\/a> that my parents purchased for our family. Although I enjoyed playing games, I quickly became fascinated with BASIC programming and how useful it could be for work and fun. This was an era when computers were viewed as little more than typewriters, so people with &#8220;advanced computer skills&#8221; could easily use them to their advantage.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opensource.com\/article\/20\/4\/linux-story\">read more<\/a><br \/><ins class=\"adbladeads\" data-cid=\"24663-3514371590\" data-host=\"web.adblade.com\" data-tag-type=\"4\" style=\"display:none\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script async src=\"http:\/\/web.adblade.com\/js\/ads\/async\/show.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It all started in the mid-1980s with an Apple ][c that my parents purchased for our family. Although I enjoyed playing games, I quickly became fascinated with BASIC programming and how useful it could be for work and fun. This was an era when computers were viewed as little more than typewriters, so people with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45999,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[307],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-source"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45998\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/45999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}