{"id":2727,"date":"1997-11-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1997-11-24T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/1997\/11\/23\/univac-comments\/"},"modified":"2018-01-14T18:02:58","modified_gmt":"2018-01-15T02:02:58","slug":"univac-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/1997\/11\/24\/univac-comments\/","title":{"rendered":"U: A Capital Idea (Reader Comments and Addenda)"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n\r\n<p>I recently encountered the term \"TWAIN,\" referring to scanner-related software. I vaguely wondered what it stood for, but assumed it was just some boring computer acronym. So I was delighted when Don Monson coincidentally dropped me a note a couple weeks later to tell me what \"TWAIN\" really stands for:<\/p>\r\n<p>Technology Without An Interesting Name.<\/p>\r\n<hr \/>\r\n<p>(Last updated: 10 January 1999)<\/p>\r\n<hr \/>\r\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/1997\/11\/23\/univac\/\">Back to column U<\/a><\/p>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2-uppercase-1"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2727"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3306,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2727\/revisions\/3306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}