{"id":8473,"date":"2011-03-26T10:33:03","date_gmt":"2011-03-26T14:33:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=8473"},"modified":"2011-03-26T10:33:03","modified_gmt":"2011-03-26T14:33:03","slug":"20-years-of-blizzard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/03\/26\/20-years-of-blizzard\/","title":{"rendered":"20 years of Blizzard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the <a href=\"http:\/\/massively.joystiq.com\/2011\/03\/25\/blizzard-bigwigs-recall-companys-first-20-years\/\" target=\"_blank\">20th anniversary<\/a> of the founding of Blizzard, one of the most important gaming companies in the industry.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Twenty years is a long time, and to illustrate how long (and make you feel old in the process), let&#8217;s do a little retrospective. In 1991, Mikhail Gorbachev led the Soviet Union, James Cameron&#8217;s <em>Terminator 2<\/em> and Kevin Costner&#8217;s <em>Robin Hood<\/em> ruled the box office, and the Super Nintendo Entertainment System was flying off toy store shelves everywhere following its August release.<\/p>\n<p>Also in 1991, a software company known as Silicon &#038; Synapse started its life by working on ports for other gaming companies before re-branding itself as Blizzard Entertainment three years later. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the 20th anniversary of the founding of Blizzard, one of the most important gaming companies in the industry. Twenty years is a long time, and to illustrate how long (and make you feel old in the process), let&#8217;s do a little retrospective. In 1991, Mikhail Gorbachev led the Soviet Union, James Cameron&#8217;s Terminator [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,7,15],"tags":[192],"class_list":["post-8473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaming","category-history","category-technology","tag-mmorpg"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-2cF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8473"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8474,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8473\/revisions\/8474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}