{"id":8640,"date":"2013-04-30T20:52:36","date_gmt":"2013-05-01T00:52:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsroundup.com\/wp\/?p=8640"},"modified":"2014-01-07T22:35:27","modified_gmt":"2014-01-08T03:35:27","slug":"and-so-it-all-began","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/?p=8640","title":{"rendered":"And so it all began&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was looking at <a href=\"http:\/\/lemurinn.is\/2012\/10\/04\/otrulegar-ljosmyndir-af-islandi-eftir-hollenska-meistarann-willem-van-de-poll-1934\/\" title=\"Lemurinn - Iceland\" target=\"_blank\">a web site<\/a> today. Banner, graphic, photos with text under them.  I remember scrolling down the long page of beautiful and interesting photos thinking the page was a little first gen, or maybe second gen to be honest. I couldn&#8217;t remember if there was a sidebar with any links. But<\/p>\n<p>Even as I thought that thought, I knew it wasn&#8217;t true. And now that I look at it again, of course it isn&#8217;t true at all.<\/p>\n<p>I remember those first gen websites because when I started on the web they were still new and exciting. You mean I can write some text with some mysterious code, fuzzy-miracle-of-something-called-FTP-over-dial-up, and there on my computer &#8211; is my info for the world to see.<\/p>\n<p>Holy cow.<\/p>\n<p>I was reminded of <a href=\" http:\/\/info.cern.ch\/hypertext\/WWW\/TheProject.html\" title=\"WWW - the project\" target=\"_blank\">the first webpage<\/a>, still there in all its exciting style here, on the anniversary of the whole thing.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve come a long ways from those simple days of  mysterious codes and uploading. But to be honest, the idea of self-publishing and sharing information (and cat videos, who knew!?) is just as exciting as it was then. <\/p>\n<p>Couple other things. There are things that should not have been carried over to the web, specifically the blink command. Animated background images and auto-play music&#8230; bad. Always bad.<\/p>\n<p>My license plate starts with W3 and I&#8217;m proud of it and for the record, I had cat photos up pretty darn early. Get a load of a very very young Deirdre who is now the senior lady of the brood:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/queenofallmydomains.com\/quiltr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/deirdre2.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/queenofallmydomains.com\/quiltr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/deirdre2-300x195.jpg\" alt=\"deirdre2\" title=\"Deirdre as a kitten\" width=\"300\" height=\"195\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8643\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finally, my license plate starts with W3 and I&#8217;m proud of it.  <a href=\"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/?p=8640\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[143,30],"tags":[559,529],"class_list":["post-8640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geeky-stuff","category-life-on-the-web","tag-geeky-stuff","tag-life-on-the-web"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3FVAs-2fm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8640"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9932,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8640\/revisions\/9932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}