{"id":544,"date":"2008-11-16T07:36:17","date_gmt":"2008-11-16T11:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=544"},"modified":"2008-11-09T17:20:25","modified_gmt":"2008-11-09T21:20:25","slug":"happy-birthday-vacuum-tube","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=544","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday Vacuum Tube"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/vacuumtube.thumbnail.jpg' class='contentimg' alt='Vacuum Tube' \/>On November 16, 1904, British engineer John Ambrose Fleming patented the <A HREF=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vacuum_tube\">vacuum tube<\/A>, ushering in the age of modern electronics.  The tube frequently shows up in Golden Age science fiction, but it seems rather charmingly retro instead of jarringly outdated.<\/p>\n<p>For a look at how computers might have evolved if the transistor and the integrated circuit had never come into being, check out this <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.technovelgy.com\/ct\/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=421\">Technovelgy article<\/A> on the Vacuum Tube Supercomputer Centre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On November 16, 1904, British engineer John Ambrose Fleming patented the vacuum tube, ushering in the age of modern electronics. The tube frequently shows up in Golden Age science fiction, but it seems rather charmingly retro instead of jarringly outdated. For a look at how computers might have evolved if the transistor and the integrated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=544"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1413,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544\/revisions\/1413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}