{"id":10,"date":"2004-06-24T12:25:38","date_gmt":"2004-06-24T20:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/archives\/2004\/06\/24\/10\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T20:04:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T04:04:08","slug":"bob-bemer-died","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/archives\/2004\/06\/24\/10\/","title":{"rendered":"Bob Bemer died"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Bob Bemer, who I communicated with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/archives\/2004\/02\/23\/9\/\">recently<\/a> regarding the Fortran &#8220;Tome&#8221;, died of cancer on June 22 [2004] at his home on Possum Kingdom Lake in Texas. He was the &#8220;father of ASCII&#8221; and one of the first to point out the &#8220;Y2K&#8221; problem (as far back as 1970). Many sources carried the story, including <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060621152853\/http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/technology\/3838845.stm\">BBC News<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A4138-2004Jun24.html\">The Washington Post<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2004\/06\/24\/bemer_dead_at84\/\">The Register<\/a>, Reuters, and <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080517055733\/https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/tech\/news\/2004-06-23-bemer_x.htm\">USA Toda<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/tech\/news\/2004-06-23-bemer_x.htm\">y<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Update 2024\/05\/07: Added &#8220;[2004]&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bob Bemer, who I communicated with recently regarding the Fortran &#8220;Tome&#8221;, died of cancer on June 22 [2004] at his home on Possum Kingdom Lake in Texas. He was the &#8220;father of ASCII&#8221; and one of the first to point out the &#8220;Y2K&#8221; problem (as far back as 1970). Many sources carried the story, including &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/archives\/2004\/06\/24\/10\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bob Bemer died&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1321,"href":"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions\/1321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}