{"id":8227,"date":"2004-02-12T12:48:45","date_gmt":"2004-02-12T12:48:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streettech.dreamhosters.com\/?p=8227"},"modified":"2004-02-12T12:48:45","modified_gmt":"2004-02-12T12:48:45","slug":"ctrl-alt-delete-goes-into-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=8227","title":{"rendered":"Ctrl-Alt-Delete Goes Into Retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, unfortunately, if you&#8217;re still using Windows, Ctrl-Alt-Delete&#8217;s retirement has been deferred because Microsoft gutted its retirement package, but the keyboard combo&#8217;s creator, David Bradley, DID retire last week. Our pal Paul McFedries, keeper of the awesome <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wordspy.com\" target=new>WordSpy<\/a> site and daily word e-list, paid tribute by making Ctrl-Alt-Delete the term of the day. In the notes to the term, he writes: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p> Today&#8217;s term was inspired by the recent retirement announcement of David Bradley, who, way back in 1980, programmed the original IBM PC to restart (perform a &#8220;warm boot,&#8221; as the geeks say) when the user pressed the Ctrl-Alt-Delete key combination. Also known as the &#8220;three-fingered salute&#8221; and the &#8220;Vulcan nerve pinch,&#8221; this classic key combo has bailed out untold millions of users when their otherwise unresponsive paperweights, oops, I mean *computers* had frozen solid due to a slight shift in the barometric pressure. It&#8217;s a tribute to the resistentialist nature of the computing beast that Ctrl-Alt-Delete remains a part of the Windows operating system to this day.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, unfortunately, if you&#8217;re still using Windows, Ctrl-Alt-Delete&#8217;s retirement has been deferred because Microsoft gutted its retirement package, but the keyboard combo&#8217;s creator, David Bradley, DID retire last week. Our pal Paul McFedries, keeper of the awesome WordSpy site and daily word e-list, paid tribute by making Ctrl-Alt-Delete the term of the day. In the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=8227\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ctrl-Alt-Delete Goes Into Retirement&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}