{"id":9620,"date":"2014-03-31T23:16:12","date_gmt":"2014-03-31T23:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/free-your-mind\/"},"modified":"2014-03-31T23:16:12","modified_gmt":"2014-03-31T23:16:12","slug":"free-your-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/free-your-mind\/","title":{"rendered":"Free \u2026 Your \u2026 Mind"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-1158\">\n<div class=\"format_text entry-content\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1159\" title=\"The Matrix Poster\" alt=\"The Matrix Poster\" src=\"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/651d8__The_Matrix_Poster.jpg\" width=\"218\" height=\"301\" \/>March 31, 1999<\/p>\n<p>The hugely successful motion picture, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/redirect.viglink.com?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&#038;u=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FThe_Matrix\" target=\"_blank\">The Matrix<\/a><\/em>, is released on this day. Many call it a classic (ok, that\u2019s me), many call it influential (ok, me again), but no one can deny that the impact it had on many aspects of our society from the emerging tech culture, to the movie industry, to science-fiction, to political thinking. <em>The Matrix<\/em> won 4 Oscars, on a budget of $  63 million grossed over $  463 million, and was the first DVD to sell over 3 million copies. And who could forget some of the great quotes from this movie, including \u201cFree \u2026 your \u2026 mind\u201d, \u201cDodge this\u201d, \u201cThere is no spoon\u201d, \u201cDon\u2019t think you are \u2013 know you are\u201d, \u201cWelcome \u2026 to the real world\u201d, \u201cI know kung fu\u201d, and \u201cYou take the red pill \u2013 you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/651d8__p-89EKCgBk8MZdE.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" \/><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/03\/31\/free-your-mind\/\">This Day in Tech History<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tech History provided by This Day in Tech History.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 31, 1999 The hugely successful motion picture, The Matrix, is released on this day. Many call it a classic (ok, that\u2019s me), many call it influential (ok, me again), but no one can deny that the impact it had on many aspects of our society from the emerging tech culture, to the movie industry, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[286,3367],"class_list":["post-9620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today-in-tech","tag-free","tag-mind"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9620"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9620\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}