{"id":601,"date":"2009-11-02T14:32:45","date_gmt":"2009-11-02T19:32:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=601"},"modified":"2009-11-03T16:33:30","modified_gmt":"2009-11-03T21:33:30","slug":"vcg-turns-four","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/601\/vcg-turns-four","title":{"rendered":"VC&G<\/em>: Still Here After Four Years"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"VintageFour years ago today, I posted my first<\/a> (somewhat awkward) entry on this blog. I was new to blogging then. Heck, blogging<\/em> was new to blogging then. Or at least it feels that way to me now.<\/p>\n

I was by no means an early adopter of blogging in general, but quite a bit has changed in the “blogosphere” (I die a little every time I say that term) over the last four years — years that have seen a choice few video game<\/a> and gadget blogs<\/a> consolidate power with very influential voices in their respective communities. They’ve gone from sloppy wannabe video game\/gadget press to actually absorbing, replacing, and becoming<\/em> the video game\/gadget press in some respects as traditional print magazines continue to fall by the wayside.<\/p>\n

Where’s VC&G<\/em> in all this? Heh, I don’t know. We’re no powerhouse, but we (I say “we” in the most singular sense of the word) have an impressive Google footprint in the video game and computer history realm. It’s a bizarre feeling when I’m researching my freelance articles<\/a> and I come across multiple links to VC&G<\/em> posts or images from Retro Scan of the Week<\/a> on every Google results page. I have to avoid quoting myself.<\/p>\n

\"Vintage<\/a>At the end of the day, Vintage Computing and Gaming<\/em> is still an enthusiast blog that’s not updated very frequently (since 2007 or so). But at least we’re still here after four years. That’s a long time to consistently maintain any blog, and I’m proud of that much.<\/p>\n

I like the stability and consistency that VC&G<\/em> provides in my writing life, and my regular readers (that’s you) feel like old buddies to me now. Thanks for continuing to humor me in moments both odd<\/a> and insightful<\/a>.<\/p>\n

On another note, I honestly never thought I’d keep the same theme and site design for this long. Back in 2005, I used to plan site redesigns for my websites every few years, but this layout served the blog so well that I just said, “What the heck. If it works, keep it.”<\/p>\n

And now, some statistics. There are currently 491 posts and 5,165 comments on VC&G<\/em>. That’s an average of 3.5 comments a day since November 2nd, 2005, and a whopping 10.5 per post. Not too shabby. Keep it up!<\/p>\n

Discussion Topic of the Year:<\/strong> Share your favorite VC&G<\/em> moments. If you had no nominate a post or two for a hypothetical “Best of VC&G<\/em>,” what would they be?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Four years ago today, I posted my first (somewhat awkward) entry on this blog. I was new to blogging then. Heck, blogging was new to blogging then. Or at least it feels that way to me now. I was by no means an early adopter of blogging in general, but quite a bit has changed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-current-events","category-vcg-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}