{"id":8795,"date":"2017-02-09T00:01:16","date_gmt":"2017-02-09T08:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=8795"},"modified":"2017-02-04T11:46:56","modified_gmt":"2017-02-04T19:46:56","slug":"ancient-screenshots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=8795","title":{"rendered":"Ancient Screenshots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I pride myself on keeping copies of things &mdash; records or archives. Only in the past few years have I destroyed hardcopies of my old stuff. I had boxes of records going back to 1984. They&#8217;re all shredded now because, well, I&#8217;d like to think that I&#8217;m not a hoarder. Still, I like keeping records for future reference. The same goes with my computer files.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nRegrettably, I don&#8217;t have every file I ever created. Back in the late 1990s I tossed out my stack of 5&frac14; floppy disks. Eventually I tossed out the 3&frac12; diskettes as well. And the old material I wrote on my TRS-80 and early PCs and Macs are all long gone.<\/p>\n<p>What I do have are electronic records dating back to the 1990s. I have files from just about every book I&#8217;ve written. Some files were on the older computers and didn&#8217;t make it over to the new systems. And when the files are copied, they lose some details. For example, very old WordPerfect, DOS Word, and older Windows files didn&#8217;t keep their proper date-time stamps. I have the files, but can&#8217;t determine when they were created.<\/p>\n<p>The other day, some of my nerd friends were sharing old computer screenshots on Facebook. Being a nerd, I too wanted to share my oldest screenshot. Surprisingly, I don&#8217;t have that many.<\/p>\n<p>My old DOS screenshots are just text dumps. That&#8217;s unimpressive. Way back when, I didn&#8217;t take a photo of the screen because it was easier to just type a &#8220;screenshot&#8221; and stick it in the book.<\/p>\n<p>When Windows came around, screenshots were possible: Press the Print Screen key and presto! In Figure 1, you see the earliest screenshot of Windows I have. This was from the book <em>Staying With DOS<\/em>, published by Ventana Press in 1990. (Yes, I still have that book&#8217;s text.)<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8797\" style=\"width: 522px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8797\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/WINDUM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"512\" height=\"354\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8797\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/WINDUM.png 512w, https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/WINDUM-300x207.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-8797\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Figure 1. A screenshot of Windows\/386.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The screenshot in Figure 1 end up in the book, but it&#8217;s part of my archive. Curiously, I named the file <code>WINDUM<\/code>, as in <em>Windows For Dummies<\/em>, which Andy Rathbone would write in 1992.<\/p>\n<p>Still, Figure 1 shows the oldest Windows screenshot I have on my PC. The file&#8217;s date is shown as January 1, 1970, which is the default Unix date, probably assigned to the file when it was copied to the OS X Macintosh I owned back the early 2000s.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t post my <code>WINDUM<\/code> screenshot to Facebook. That&#8217;s because the other nerd posted a screenshot of the original Windows, released in the 1980s. I played with that version of Windows on a Tandy 2000 computer, but I never took nor did I save a screenshot. Bummer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time to dig through the archives and see how far back my stuff goes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8795"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8800,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8795\/revisions\/8800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}