{"id":27381,"date":"2025-04-04T20:27:31","date_gmt":"2025-04-05T01:27:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=27381"},"modified":"2025-04-04T20:27:31","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T01:27:31","slug":"50-years-ago-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=27381","title":{"rendered":"50 years ago today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today marks the 50th anniversary of the founding of Microsoft. Far from the behemoth that it is today, it started out as just two guys creating a partnership in Alberquerque, New Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder how many stories we could tell about the humble origins of mighty corporations. For example, The Walt Disney Company started out as a ragtag little independent animation house in Kansas City, as a partnership between Ub Iwerks and some other young fellow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today marks the 50th anniversary of the founding of Microsoft. Far from the behemoth that it is today, it started out as just two guys creating a partnership in Alberquerque, New Mexico. I wonder how many stories we could tell about the humble origins of mighty corporations. For example, The Walt Disney Company started out &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=27381\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;50 years ago today&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27381"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27381"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27382,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27381\/revisions\/27382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}