{"id":182712,"date":"2024-02-14T17:27:51","date_gmt":"2024-02-14T23:27:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/100-years-ago-ibm-was-born"},"modified":"2024-02-14T17:27:51","modified_gmt":"2024-02-14T23:27:51","slug":"100-years-ago-ibm-was-born","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/100-years-ago-ibm-was-born","title":{"rendered":"100 Years Ago, IBM Was Born"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/100-years-ago-ibm-was-born.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Happy birthday, IBM! You\u2019re 100 years old! Or are you?<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s true that the businesses that formed IBM began in the late 1800s. But it\u2019s also true that a birth occurred in February 1924, with the renaming of the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Co. as the International Business Machines Corp. And a hundred years after that event, it serves as an important reminder that the world of computing and IT that IBM played a pivotal role in building has a longer history than we are likely to think. \u201cData processing\u201d was coined over a century ago, while \u201coffice appliance\u201d was in use in the 1880s. From the 19th century, through the 20th, and into the 21st, IBM was there, making HP, <a href=\"https:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/tag\/microsoft\" class=\"\">Microsoft<\/a>, and Apple appear more like children or grandchildren of the IT world; <a href=\"https:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/tag\/facebook\" class=\"\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/tag\/google\" class=\"\">Google<\/a>, and Twitter\/X more like great-grandchildren. So let\u2019s take a moment to contemplate the origins of an iconic corporation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy birthday, IBM! You\u2019re 100 years old! Or are you? It\u2019s true that the businesses that formed IBM began in the late 1800s. But it\u2019s also true that a birth occurred in February 1924, with the renaming of the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Co. as the International Business Machines Corp. And a hundred years after that event, it [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,1523],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}