{"id":2115,"date":"2012-09-15T07:14:45","date_gmt":"2012-09-15T07:14:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/?p=2115"},"modified":"2023-07-13T17:16:29","modified_gmt":"2023-07-13T17:16:29","slug":"new-iphone-5-lightning-connector-predicted-in-1999","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/film\/new-iphone-5-lightning-connector-predicted-in-1999\/","title":{"rendered":"New iPhone 5 &#8220;Lightning&#8221; connector predicted in 1999"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/fight-club-lightning.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"708\" height=\"295\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/fight-club-lightning.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2116\" title=\"Fight Club Apple Lightning connector\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/fight-club-lightning.png 708w, https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/fight-club-lightning-300x125.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 708px) 100vw, 708px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you follow tech news at all, you know that Apple is replacing their large iPod connector with a new smaller connector for the iPhone 5 <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2012\/09\/14\/apple-lightning-what-we-know\/\">called &#8220;Lightning.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Most folks who follow Apple would assume that the name Lightning is a reference to Apple&#8217;s new Mac connector port called &#8220;Thunderbolt.&#8221; But is it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The above screenshot is from the 1999 film <em>Fight Club<\/em>, which depicts the Apple logo in a store window next to the word &#8220;Lightning.&#8221; Coincidence? Sure, it probably is. But still, it&#8217;s odd to see the connection in a thirteen year old film.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you follow tech news at all, you know that Apple is replacing their large iPod connector with a new smaller connector for the iPhone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","slim_seo":{"title":"New iPhone 5 \"Lightning\" connector predicted in 1999 - MrEricSir.com","description":"If you follow tech news at all, you know that Apple is replacing their large iPod connector with a new smaller connector for the iPhone 5 called \"Lightning.\" Mo"},"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","autoblue_publish_document":false,"_slim_seo_primary_term_category":0,"_slim_seo_primary_term_post_tag":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[347],"tags":[194,622,832,38],"class_list":["post-2115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","tag-apple","tag-fightclub","tag-lightning","tag-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2115"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10152,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2115\/revisions\/10152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}