{"id":378,"date":"2008-01-15T06:58:05","date_gmt":"2008-01-15T11:58:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oranchak.com\/?p=378"},"modified":"2008-01-15T06:58:05","modified_gmt":"2008-01-15T11:58:05","slug":"echoes-of-obscure-1980s-software-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/?p=378","title":{"rendered":"Echoes of obscure 1980s software culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I was a kid in the 80s poking around on my ol&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Apple_IIc\">Apple \/\/c<\/a>, I loved the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Beagle_Bros\">Beagle Bros<\/a>, a company that made great software and had a very unique style.  Their combination of vintage wordcut artwork with hobbyist programming was great fun (<a href=\"http:\/\/oranchak.com\/beagle-bros-poster.jpg\">here is a great example<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>The Beagle Bros company logo depicted the founders as stylized 19th century figures:<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Beagle_Bros\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/oranchak.com\/BeagleBros_logo.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a><br \/>\n<i>Beagle Bros company logo.  Zounds!  Dapper lads at the pinch of their game!<\/i><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>My memory of the Beagle Bros was stirred recently when I came across this logo:<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.itscandybouquet.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/oranchak.com\/candy-bouquet-logo.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a><br \/>\n<i>Candy Bouquet company logo.  Blatant ripoff or re-use of generic logo template?<\/i><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Is this company stealing from the iconography of the long-dormant Beagle Bros software empire?  Or is this type of logo very common, and I&#8217;m just crazy?  Wait, don&#8217;t answer that.<\/p>\n<p>(by the way, check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.panic.com\/~stevenf\/beagle\/\">Beagle Bros online museum<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was a kid in the 80s poking around on my ol&#8217; Apple \/\/c, I loved the Beagle Bros, a company that made great software and had a very unique style. Their combination of vintage wordcut artwork with hobbyist &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/?p=378\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,16,35,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-crackbaby","category-meaningless","category-tech","category-toys"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}