{"id":33893,"date":"2005-10-05T10:00:09","date_gmt":"2005-10-05T10:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2005\/10\/05\/my-history-of-time-is-briefer-than-yours\/"},"modified":"2005-10-05T10:00:09","modified_gmt":"2005-10-05T10:00:09","slug":"my-history-of-time-is-briefer-than-yours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20051005-09\/?p=33893","title":{"rendered":"My history of time is briefer than yours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 1999, Eric Schulman published <a href=\"http:\/\/members.bellatlantic.net\/~vze3fs8i\/bhtes\/reviews.html\"> <i>A Briefer History of Time<\/i><\/a>, based upon his previous effort to <a href=\"http:\/\/members.bellatlantic.net\/~vze3fs8i\/hist\/hist.html\"> capture the history of the universe in 200 words<\/a>. The book takes the initial 200-word summary and expands upon each phrase, surreptitiously teaching you some science among the jokes. (You can even <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/news\/mmg\/mmg_disp.cfm?med_id=54447\"> watch a video<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p> And then <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawking.org.uk\/\"> this Hawking guy<\/a> shows up and gives his book <a href=\"http:\/\/search.barnesandnoble.com\/booksearch\/isbnInquiry.asp?isbn=0553804367\"> the exact same title<\/a>. What a rip-off. <\/p>\n<p> (I&#8217;m told this Hawking guy has a lot of fans. Those who live in the Seattle area might be interested to know that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theparamount.com\/artists\/artist.asp?key=261\"> he&#8217;ll be in town<\/a> in mid-November.) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1999, Eric Schulman published A Briefer History of Time, based upon his previous effort to capture the history of the universe in 200 words. The book takes the initial 200-word summary and expands upon each phrase, surreptitiously teaching you some science among the jokes. (You can even watch a video.) And then this Hawking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-33893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>In 1999, Eric Schulman published A Briefer History of Time, based upon his previous effort to capture the history of the universe in 200 words. The book takes the initial 200-word summary and expands upon each phrase, surreptitiously teaching you some science among the jokes. (You can even watch a video.) And then this Hawking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33893\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}