{"id":8186,"date":"2014-09-09T12:38:10","date_gmt":"2014-09-09T17:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/?p=8186"},"modified":"2021-11-27T22:10:04","modified_gmt":"2021-11-28T03:10:04","slug":"a-powerful-symbol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/2014\/09\/09\/a-powerful-symbol\/","title":{"rendered":"A powerful symbol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that the symbol for power \/ standby mode used on \u00c2\u00a0most electronics today has existed since 1973? \u00c2\u00a0At the time, it was included in a standard created by the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) for use on various electrically powered equipment. \u00c2\u00a0Originally this symbol\u00c2\u00a0was meant to be used for \u00c2\u00a0&#8220;Standby&#8221; mode. \u00c2\u00a0It wasn&#8217;t until 2004 that its current more generic &#8220;Power&#8221; meaning was adopted in a <a href=\"http:\/\/energy.lbl.gov\/controls\/1621\/1621index.html\">standard <\/a>released by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). \u00c2\u00a0The symbol is composed of two superimposed numbers, 1 meaning on, and 0 meaning off.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8187\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8187\" style=\"width: 100px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/power-512.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-8187\" src=\"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/power-512-150x150.png\" alt=\"The Standby \/ Power symbol\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/power-512-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/power-512-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/power-512-144x144.png 144w, https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/power-512.png 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 100px) 100vw, 100px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8187\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Standby \/ Power symbol<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know the power symbol you see on most electronics today is over 40 years old?  Visit our blog posting for more details.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8187,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-did-you-know","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8186"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8257,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8186\/revisions\/8257"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}