{"id":3692,"date":"2014-03-10T11:10:53","date_gmt":"2014-03-10T01:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/?p=3692"},"modified":"2014-03-10T17:40:04","modified_gmt":"2014-03-10T07:40:04","slug":"ghosts-of-mysql-past-part-7-1-hey-look-i-found-an-old-business-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/10\/ghosts-of-mysql-past-part-7-1-hey-look-i-found-an-old-business-card\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghosts of MySQL Past, Part 7.1: Hey look, I found an old business card"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Digging through piles of old stuff in the house, I came across a nice little artifact of MySQL history, an old business card. One benefit of a small company is that you can tend to get your first name @company.com, which of course, I had.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IMG_20140310_111500.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3694\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/10\/ghosts-of-mysql-past-part-7-1-hey-look-i-found-an-old-business-card\/img_20140310_111500\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IMG_20140310_111500.jpg?fit=2592%2C1944&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2592,1944\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.75&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Galaxy Nexus&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;3.43&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.029997&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"IMG_20140310_111500\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IMG_20140310_111500.jpg?fit=584%2C438&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3694\" alt=\"IMG_20140310_111500\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IMG_20140310_111500.jpg?resize=300%2C225&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IMG_20140310_111500.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IMG_20140310_111500.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IMG_20140310_111500.jpg?resize=400%2C300&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IMG_20140310_111500.jpg?w=1168&amp;ssl=1 1168w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IMG_20140310_111500.jpg?w=1752&amp;ssl=1 1752w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>I wonder which other MySQL AB employees still have a business card laying around somewhere?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Digging through piles of old stuff in the house, I came across a nice little artifact of MySQL history, an old business card. One benefit of a small company is that you can tend to get your first name @company.com, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/10\/ghosts-of-mysql-past-part-7-1-hey-look-i-found-an-old-business-card\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[14],"tags":[567,628],"class_list":["post-3692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mysql","tag-business-card","tag-mysql"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5a6n8-Xy","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3667,"url":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/05\/ghosts-of-mysql-past-part-3\/","url_meta":{"origin":3692,"position":0},"title":"Ghosts of MySQL Past: Part 3","author":"Stewart Smith","date":"2014-02-05","format":false,"excerpt":"See Part 1 and Part 2. 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