{"id":820,"date":"2011-11-23T20:03:35","date_gmt":"2011-11-24T01:03:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=820"},"modified":"2011-12-08T15:52:11","modified_gmt":"2011-12-08T20:52:11","slug":"you-know-its-an-old-website-if","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/820\/you-know-its-an-old-website-if","title":{"rendered":"You Know It&#8217;s an Old Website If&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='\/wp-content\/old_website_small.jpg' alt='You Know Its An Old Website If...' class=\"centered\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Just a little while ago <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/benjedwards\" target=\"_blank\">on Twitter<\/a>, I started spouting out some one liners, Jeff Foxworthy style, about how you know if a website is old.  I love coming across old websites, so it&#8217;s fun to spit these out.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t guarantee that they&#8217;re funny, but I think they&#8217;re at least amusing.  People liked them enough that I decided to post my lines here and ask you guys to continue the list.  I may add more to it over time.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>You know it&#8217;s an old website if&#8230;<\/strong><br \/>\n&#8230;every image on the site rotates.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><strong>You know it&#8217;s an old website if&#8230;<\/strong><br \/>\n&#8230;they refer to AltaVista in the present tense.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><strong>You know it&#8217;s an old website if&#8230;<\/strong><br \/>\n&#8230;you found it through a web ring.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><strong>You know it&#8217;s an old website if&#8230;<\/strong><br \/>\n&#8230;it says &#8220;Best viewed in IBM WebExplorer.&#8221;<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><strong>You know it&#8217;s an old website if&#8230;<\/strong><br \/>\n&#8230;your browser complains that there&#8217;s no MIDI plug-in installed.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><strong>You know it&#8217;s an old website if&#8230;<\/strong><br \/>\n&#8230;it forces you to enter the site through a splash page.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><strong>You know it&#8217;s an old website if&#8230;<\/strong><br \/>\n&#8230;it asks you not to hotlink the GIF images.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><strong>You know it&#8217;s an old website if&#8230;<\/strong><br \/>\n&#8230;every single link on the page &#8216;404s.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><strong>You know it&#8217;s an old website if&#8230;<\/strong><br \/>\n&#8230;the owner claims it&#8217;s &#8220;under construction.&#8221;<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><strong>You know it&#8217;s an old website if&#8230;<\/strong><br \/>\n&#8230;it brags about having 1,000 hits.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Now it&#8217;s your turn.  Add your one-liners in the comments below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a little while ago on Twitter, I started spouting out some one liners, Jeff Foxworthy style, about how you know if a website is old. I love coming across old websites, so it&#8217;s fun to spit these out. I can&#8217;t guarantee that they&#8217;re funny, but I think they&#8217;re at least amusing. People liked them [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,24,35,8,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-info-and-history","category-humor","category-internet-history","category-technology-commentary","category-computers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820","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=820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}