{"id":515,"date":"2010-07-09T22:18:34","date_gmt":"2010-07-10T05:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/?p=515"},"modified":"2010-07-09T22:18:34","modified_gmt":"2010-07-10T05:18:34","slug":"the-wayback-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/09\/the-wayback-machine\/","title":{"rendered":"The Wayback Machine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No, not the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WABAC_machine\">WABAC machine<\/a> &#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wayback_Machine\">the Wayback Machine<\/a>! As clever as <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mr._Peabody\">Mr. Peabody&#8217;s<\/a> invention is, what we&#8217;re talking about here is the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Internet_Archive\">Internet Archive&#8217;s<\/a> tool for looking at what the Web looked like long ago. It&#8217;s located at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/web\/web.php\">www.archive.org<\/a> and is a great tool for inspecting, for example, how your own web sites have evolved.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s take a look at what the Library of Dresan looked like, long long ago. Set the Wayback Machine to December 3, 2001, Sherman! (If you&#8217;re following along at home, you might want to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jeopardy!_theme_music\">play the theme music for Jeopardy<\/a> while the page loads &#8230; this may take a while, the Internet Archive is stored on stone tablets). Alright, so the page looked like <a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20011203230956\/http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/\">this<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/images\/lodr-as-of-dec-2001.png\" alt=\"library of dresan as of dec 2001\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/images\/lodr-as-of-dec-2001.png\" width=\"600\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>*shudder*<\/p>\n<p>In case you don&#8217;t &#8220;get&#8221; the many problems with this version of the site, let me point out (beyond the background which makes it nearly unreadable) that the site is &#8220;dedicated&#8221; to something (universal peace and harmony) different from what it was actually dedicated to (my random thoughts and musings) and then with that in mind I went and wrote a post called &#8220;Dedication&#8221; which appears right under that dedication? Need I go on?<\/p>\n<p>Well, we can&#8217;t expect perfection right off the bat, can we? (Or ever. Shut up, voice of reason! I&#8217;m just sayin&#8217;. Shut up!) At least I haven&#8217;t done something dumb like, I dunno, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Papyrus_(typeface)#Use\">making my site logo with Papyrus<\/a>. That would be just <a href=\"http:\/\/numerosign.com\/notebook\/stop-reading-clients-from-hell\">too embarrassing for words<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>-the Centaur<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, not the WABAC machine &#8230; the Wayback Machine! As clever as Mr. Peabody&#8217;s invention is, what we&#8217;re talking about here is the Internet Archive&#8217;s tool for looking at what&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3],"class_list":["post-515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-webworks","ratio-2-1","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=515"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":520,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515\/revisions\/520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}