{"id":1271,"date":"2006-05-22T23:02:48","date_gmt":"2006-05-22T23:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=1271"},"modified":"2006-05-22T23:05:14","modified_gmt":"2006-05-22T23:05:14","slug":"what-is-the-internet-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=1271","title":{"rendered":"What is the internet for?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Photo Sharing\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/32533403@N00\/151508065\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"280\" hspace=\"10\" align=\"left\" alt=\"writing-desk\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/47\/151508065_947e43e12a_m.jpg\" \/><\/a>There are many answers to that question, but one of the best ones is: for people to selflessly share their time and enthusiasms<br \/>\nto the benefits of others. At least that&#8217;s the conclusion to be drawn from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fromoldbooks.org\/\">Liam&#8217;s Pictures from Old Books<\/a>, a site boasting 1040 images on the general theme of books and reading, nearly all in the public domain.<\/p>\n<p>Go on, you know you were thinking about jazzing up your blog or website. (I&#8217;ve just done the front page  of <a href = \"http:\/\/blogcritics.org\/books\/\">Blogcritics Books<\/a>, and it is going to save me a fortune, since my previous plan for its images was buying old postcards on eBay.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are many answers to that question, but one of the best ones is: for people to selflessly share their time and enthusiasms to the benefits of others. At least that&#8217;s the conclusion to be drawn from Liam&#8217;s Pictures from Old Books, a site boasting 1040 images on the general theme of books and reading, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging","category-history","author-natalieben"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}