{"id":13113,"date":"2014-04-17T09:05:56","date_gmt":"2014-04-17T14:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=13113"},"modified":"2014-04-17T09:05:56","modified_gmt":"2014-04-17T14:05:56","slug":"the-irs-uses-computers-the-horror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=13113","title":{"rendered":"The IRS uses computers?! The horror!"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>It&#8217;s impossible to imagine the Internal Revenue Service or most other number-crunching agencies or companies working without computers. But when the IRS went to computers &#8212; the Automatic Data Processing system &#8211;there was an uproar. The agency went so far as to produce a short film on the topic called Right On The Button, to convince the public computers were a good thing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.networkworld.com\/community\/blog\/irs-uses-computers-horror\">The IRS uses computers?! The horror!<\/a>.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<object width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/lOt0GRVGNXo?hl=en_US&amp;version=3\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/lOt0GRVGNXo?hl=en_US&amp;version=3\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s impossible to imagine the Internal Revenue Service or most other number-crunching agencies or companies working without computers. But when the IRS went to computers &#8212; the Automatic Data Processing system &#8211;there was an uproar. The agency went so far &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=13113\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[378],"tags":[475,1165,1087,645],"class_list":["post-13113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marketing","tag-big-data","tag-data-collection","tag-government-contracts","tag-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13113"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13118,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13113\/revisions\/13118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}