{"id":5839,"date":"2009-02-27T20:19:38","date_gmt":"2009-02-28T04:19:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=5839"},"modified":"2009-02-27T20:32:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-28T04:32:00","slug":"are-computers-the-new-surf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=5839","title":{"rendered":"Are Computers The New Surf?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/softwear.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/softwear.jpg','popup','width=514,height=437,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/softwear-tm.jpg\" height=\"170\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Softwear\" \/><\/a>In the latest of a string of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/kotaku.com\/5161235\/microsofts-retail-stores-will-sell-games-hardware\" target=\"_blank\">bizarre<\/a><\/strong> <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/action\/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&amp;articleId=9128684&amp;intsrc=news_ts_head\" target=\"_blank\">announcements<\/a><\/strong><strong> <\/strong>to come out of Redmond, Washington <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Microsoft<\/a><\/strong> is now launching a clothing line called <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/windows\/softwearbymicrosoft\/\" target=\"_blank\">Softwear<\/a><\/strong> (get it?) that:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8221; . . . taps the nostalgia of when PCs were just starting to change our lives. With retro logos, classic photos and geek-chic igonography, these pieces showcase the DOS days of the software company that now connects over a billion people.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The clothing will be sold at the seemingly recession proof <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbanoutfitters.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Urban Outfitters<\/a><\/strong> and is being designed in collaboration with the rapper <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thinkcommon.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Common<\/a><\/strong>. There certainly is no worse time to launch a clothing line.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/windows\/softwearbymicrosoft\/\" target=\"_blank\">Softwear<\/a><\/strong><strong> via <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.neowin.net\/news\/main\/09\/02\/28\/microsoft-launches-clothing-line-called-software\" target=\"_blank\">Neowin<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the latest of a string of bizarre announcements to come out of Redmond, Washington Microsoft is now launching a clothing line called Softwear (get it?) that: &#8221; . . . taps the nostalgia of when PCs were just starting to change our lives. With retro logos, classic photos and geek-chic igonography, these pieces showcase [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5839"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5839"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5841,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5839\/revisions\/5841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}