{"id":558,"date":"2010-07-16T23:42:50","date_gmt":"2010-07-17T06:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/?p=558"},"modified":"2010-07-16T23:42:50","modified_gmt":"2010-07-17T06:42:50","slug":"before-the-dawn-of-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/16\/before-the-dawn-of-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Before the dawn of time&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;there was my ORIGINAL home page at the Georgia Institute of Technology:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/images\/homepage-reloaded.png\" alt=\"the centaur's college home page\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/images\/homepage-reloaded.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Amazing, yes, the frames, the under construction sign, the &#8216;bouncer look&#8217; photo, etc.<\/p>\n<p>What amazes me even more? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/aimosaic\/students\/centaur\/\">It&#8217;s still up<\/a>, as of 2010-07-16. Wow.<\/p>\n<p>But wait! This just in &#8230; according to <a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\">the Wayback Machine<\/a>, this wasn&#8217;t even the first version of the page; <a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/19961221034745\/http:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/aimosaic\/students\/centaur\/\">this<\/a> is the first version of my home page:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/images\/homepage-original.png\" alt=\"the centaur's original home page\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/images\/homepage-original.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Actually I can tell this isn&#8217;t the actual first version of my page &#8211; there are some links missing from it that were in the very earliest version of the page, and it has frames, which I don&#8217;t think were in the very first page I put up &#8211; but this is the oldest recorded version, from almost 14 years ago. Aeons in Internet time &#8230; especially considering <a href=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/History\/19921103-hypertext\/hypertext\/WWW\/TheProject.html\">the very first web page<\/a> was only six years earlier, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/People\/Berners-Lee\/FAQ.html#Examples\">about 20 years ago<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/images\/the-first-web-page.png\" alt=\"the first web page\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/images\/the-first-web-page.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>How things have changed in two short decades.<\/p>\n<p>-the Centaur<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;there was my ORIGINAL home page at the Georgia Institute of Technology: Amazing, yes, the frames, the under construction sign, the &#8216;bouncer look&#8217; photo, etc. What amazes me even more?&#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":[50,5,3],"class_list":["post-558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-reblogging","tag-we-call-it-living","tag-webworks","ratio-2-1","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558","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=558"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":572,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558\/revisions\/572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}