{"id":2048,"date":"2009-12-23T15:33:27","date_gmt":"2009-12-23T23:33:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/?p=2048"},"modified":"2009-12-23T15:33:27","modified_gmt":"2009-12-23T23:33:27","slug":"microsoft-jingle-bells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/microsoft-jingle-bells\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Jingle Bells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I acquired an MP3 all the way back in 1997 or 1998 which is a parody of Jingle Bells holiday tune that laments Microsoft-branded bloatware. Mildly humorous at the time, the song now serves as a technology time capsule. The internet seems unsure of who wrote or performed the song or when it was recorded, but the lyrics give a clue about its vintage. The singer complains that MS Word takes a whole 60 megabytes of RAM to run and occupies 900 megabytes of disc space.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nNine-tenths of a gig, biggest ever seen,<br \/>\nGod, this program&#8217;s big: MS Word 15!<br \/>\nComes on ten CDs, and requires&#8211;damn!<br \/>\nWord is fine, but jeez, 60 megs of RAM?!<br \/>\nOh! Microsoft, Microsoft,  bloatware all the way!<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve sat here installing Word, since breakfast yesterday!<br \/>\nOh! Microsoft, Microsoft, moderation, please.<br \/>\nGuess you hadn&#8217;t noticed: Four-gig drives don&#8217;t grow on trees!\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This clearly hearkens back to a time when 4 gigabyte drives were considered premium. I&#8217;m trying to remember when 4 GB drives were introduced and would have commanded a prohibitive price. Whenever it was, it still strikes me as ironic considering that I am typing this on my Linux-based Eee PC 701 which is equipped with 4 GB of storage which is just barely enough for Ubuntu 9.10 to tread water (ran out of space today, in fact, and I had to scramble to make room to keep working).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Holiday music (sort of)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2048"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2051,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2048\/revisions\/2051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}