{"id":3946,"date":"2018-01-07T09:00:29","date_gmt":"2018-01-07T13:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/?p=3946"},"modified":"2018-01-04T15:23:04","modified_gmt":"2018-01-04T19:23:04","slug":"vallentyne-com-is-15-years-old-sorta-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/07\/vallentyne-com-is-15-years-old-sorta-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Vallentyne.com is 15 years old (sorta) today!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While doing some poking around on the blog, I realized that Jan 7, 2003 is the oldest post in my WordPress database.\u00c2\u00a0 That&#8217;s kinda nifty, but it also makes me feel old.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"byWRftv0m7\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2003\/01\/07\/the-first-wee-post-to\/\">The first wee post to<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;The first wee post to&#8221; &#8212; Happy Vallentynes\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2003\/01\/07\/the-first-wee-post-to\/embed\/#?secret=UjprweIg3P#?secret=byWRftv0m7\" data-secret=\"byWRftv0m7\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the oldest entry in the database, but the website actually started as just plain old HTML, no content management system at all.\u00c2\u00a0 It was ugly.\u00c2\u00a0 Fortunately the WayBack machine provides a look:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=3947\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3947\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3947\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/07\/vallentyne-com-is-15-years-old-sorta-today\/vtioriginal\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/VTIoriginal.png\" data-orig-size=\"1672,362\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"VTI original\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/VTIoriginal-1024x222.png\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3947\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/VTIoriginal-1024x222.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"723\" height=\"157\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/VTIoriginal-1024x222.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/VTIoriginal-300x65.png 300w, https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/VTIoriginal-768x166.png 768w, https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/VTIoriginal.png 1672w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yeah, no idea what I was thinking there.<\/p>\n<p>But the \/Family site used Blogger shortly after that, which looked a <em>bit<\/em> better:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=3948\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3948\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3948\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/07\/vallentyne-com-is-15-years-old-sorta-today\/ramblings\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/ramblings.png\" data-orig-size=\"1713,1031\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Mundane Ramblings\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/ramblings-1024x616.png\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3948\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/ramblings-1024x616.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"723\" height=\"435\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/ramblings-1024x616.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/ramblings-300x181.png 300w, https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/ramblings-768x462.png 768w, https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/ramblings.png 1713w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Back then we had lots of participation, not just posts by me&#8230;. (this was pre-Facebook and pre-Twitter).\u00c2\u00a0 There was some good stuff on there, actually.\u00c2\u00a0 You can read them for yourself <a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20030402162845\/http:\/\/www.vallentyne.com:80\/family\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>One particularly pithy one is this Alison Gibson original composition, which is surely worth something now.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"posts\">Labels and napster and fortune dot com<br \/>\nLawyers and rapsters and good ideas gone wrong<br \/>\nA user&#8217;s agreement that 10 pages long<br \/>\nWhen all I wanted was to buy one frickin song<br \/>\nYeah that&#8217;s what you get for your Commie ideals<br \/>\nFace it man, everyone lies cheats and steals<br \/>\nTake your gripe to the national court of appeals<br \/>\nIf you&#8217;ve got a problem with these amazing dealsIt&#8217;s wireless, digital slick plug &#8216;n play!<br \/>\nHurry, you need it, buy now and don&#8217;t pay!<br \/>\nNO INTEREST, NO PAYMENTS, sign up today!<br \/>\nMastercard accepted, click Submit and OK!Whoa what the fuck happened to me just now?<br \/>\nI think I bought a cellular phone somehow.<br \/>\nAll I wanted was Cougar&#8217;s &#8220;Blood on the Plow&#8221;<br \/>\nNot to feed the bloodthirsty corporate cash cow<\/p>\n<p>But that&#8217;s what you get for your Commie ideals<br \/>\nFace it babe, everyone lies cheats and steals<br \/>\nTake your best shot and see who squeals<br \/>\nWe bet you can&#8217;t afford the court of appeals<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"byline\">\u00c2\u00a0Now that&#8217;s a song that still has relevance right there.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Blogger worked for a while, but then I went to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2005\/04\/10\/429\/\">MovableType<\/a> since I was running this on my own servers at home and it was so much easier to do it that way.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>But, even these posts aren&#8217;t actually the oldest bits that existed.\u00c2\u00a0 No sir, if you dig a bit more, you can find <a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20030417070201\/http:\/\/www.vallentyne.com:80\/family\/news_archive.htm\">this<\/a>:<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=3949\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3949\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3949\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/07\/vallentyne-com-is-15-years-old-sorta-today\/quinns-arrival\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/quinns-arrival.png\" data-orig-size=\"1230,948\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"quinns arrival\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/quinns-arrival-1024x789.png\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3949\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/quinns-arrival-1024x789.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"723\" height=\"557\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/quinns-arrival-1024x789.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/quinns-arrival-300x231.png 300w, https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/quinns-arrival-768x592.png 768w, https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/quinns-arrival.png 1230w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>So, while my memory doesn&#8217;t recall, it seems that the first thing I put on the Internet at this location was on May 27, 2002.\u00c2\u00a0 Something about a kid being born.\u00c2\u00a0 :-)\u00c2\u00a0 That page is pretty funny to read through now, wow.\u00c2\u00a0 I was just editing HTML by hand back then, so it&#8217;s really, really ugly.<\/p>\n<p>So there you go.\u00c2\u00a0 A tour of the blog&#8217;s past, and it&#8217;s not even the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/30\/mundane-ramblings-retrospective-2003\/\">first<\/a> time I have written one of these posts, because after 15+ years you kinda forget.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While doing some poking around on the blog, I realized that Jan 7, 2003 is the oldest post in my WordPress database.\u00c2\u00a0 That&#8217;s kinda nifty, but it also makes me feel old. 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