{"id":199797,"date":"2026-03-27T15:21:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T19:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/27\/america-250-from-quill-pens-to-ai-how-the-us-records-its-history\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T15:35:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T19:35:14","slug":"america-250-from-quill-pens-to-ai-how-the-us-records-its-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/27\/america-250-from-quill-pens-to-ai-how-the-us-records-its-history\/","title":{"rendered":"America 250: From quill pens to AI, how the US records its history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wtop.com\/250-years-of-america\/2026\/03\/america-250-from-quill-pens-to-ai-how-the-us-records-its-history\/\">America 250: From quill pens to AI, how the US records its history<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wtop.com\/250-years-of-america\/2026\/03\/america-250-from-quill-pens-to-ai-how-the-us-records-its-history\/\">https:\/\/wtop.com\/250-years-of-america\/2026\/03\/america-250-from-quill-pens-to-ai-how-the-us-records-its-history\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-27 15:21:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"wtop.com\">wtop.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>America\u2019s story began with quill and ink in 1776, and typewriters were only introduced to the federal government more than a century later.<\/li>\n<li>In 1880, the White House received its first typewriter, the Fairbanks and Company Improved Number Two, which was revolutionary at the time.<\/li>\n<li>Presidents Rutherford B. Hayes, James A. Garfield, Chester A. Arthur, and Grover Cleveland initially did not embrace the typewriter.<\/li>\n<li>It took nine years after the introduction of the typewriter before the first presidential correspondence was written on one, thanks to Alice Sanger, President Benjamin Harrison\u2019s secretary.<\/li>\n<li>The adoption of computers began with the UNIVAC I in 1951, the first computer designed for data processing over scientific calculations.<\/li>\n<li>By the mid-1960s, the federal government switched to the IBM System\/360 due to its affordable leasing model and strong marketing.<\/li>\n<li>In the late 20th century, the cloud computing era began with the Obama administration\u2019s 2011 Cloud First Policy, aiming to modernize government IT infrastructure.<\/li>\n<li>Artificial intelligence now plays a significant role in various sectors, including the National Archives for document preservation and the Department of Veterans Affairs for faster claim processing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>America 250: From quill pens to AI, how the US records its history https:\/\/wtop.com\/250-years-of-america\/2026\/03\/america-250-from-quill-pens-to-ai-how-the-us-records-its-history\/ Publish&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":199798,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wtop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/AP_8108010102.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-199797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199797"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199797"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":199799,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199797\/revisions\/199799"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}