{"id":21692,"date":"2025-11-13T16:05:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T21:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/?p=21692"},"modified":"2025-11-13T16:05:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T21:05:13","slug":"the-original-upgrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/the-original-upgrade\/","title":{"rendered":"The Original Upgrade"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In 1969, computers were huge, and so were our expectations for them. This room-sized machine looked like something out of NASA and felt like the future landing right on campus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What tech first blew your mind at Monmouth? The word processor that spelled the end of your typewriter? The floppy disks that made punch cards feel prehistoric? The Wi-Fi that turned Shadow Lawn into a study space?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Share the future as you first experienced it, and if you\u2019ve got a photo to go with the memory, even better. Email us at magazine@monmouth.edu<\/a> or write to Monmouth Magazine, 400 Cedar Ave., West Long Branch, NJ 07764.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Share the tech that changed your campus experience forever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":21699,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"image_focus":"{\"x\":49,\"y\":17}","hide_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-looking-back"],"thumbnail":"\"\"","catString":"Looking Back","issue":"Fall\/Winter 2025","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21692"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21700,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21692\/revisions\/21700"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}