{"id":45925,"date":"2021-10-09T10:32:36","date_gmt":"2021-10-09T14:32:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pappp.net\/?guid=d6e8cedd6184d2d3a76b6845181ad4cb"},"modified":"2021-10-10T14:00:46","modified_gmt":"2021-10-10T18:00:46","slug":"atts-abandoned-microwave-tower-network-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=45925","title":{"rendered":"AT&amp;T\u2019s Abandoned Microwave Tower Network (2017)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/99percentinvisible.org\/article\/vintage-skynet-atts-abandoned-long-lines-microwave-tower-network\/\">Hacker News<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color: #fff7d5; padding: 5px; margin-bottom: 1em; color: #9a8c59; border: 1px dashed #e7d796;\">Article note: The old Bell system was truly a marvel.\nThe fact that a nation-wide, circuit-switched, analog network with free-air microwave links worked is borderline-miracle.\nThe fact that it was comprised of technologies invented in-house that were engineered until they had 50-year service lives before being deployed is completely foreign to the modern technology context.\n...and now we're letting the abusive monopoly business part reassemble itself _without_ the benefit of running a civilization altering science and engineering lab.<\/div>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=28810192\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Comments<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comments<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=45925\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}