{"id":2758,"date":"2013-09-13T11:41:34","date_gmt":"2013-09-13T11:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2013\/09\/13\/way_way_back\/"},"modified":"2013-09-13T11:41:34","modified_gmt":"2013-09-13T11:41:34","slug":"way_way_back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2013\/09\/13\/way_way_back\/","title":{"rendered":"Way, way back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>One of the things<\/strong> that&#8217;s always made me a little uneasy about designing things for the web is the likelihood of the stuff you make being wiped away for good once a site is updated. I tried to break myself of the habit of building comps in Photoshop relatively early (although I&#8217;d build some &#8220;furniture&#8221; there to place in and around my blog templates), so I&#8217;ve never had very good records of what early versions of this site used to look like. Since I&#8217;ve been posting material in some manner of another since 1996, that&#8217;s a lot of evolution wiped away.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s why <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/web\/web.php\">The Wayback Machine<\/a> is so wonderful. Thanks to its <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wayback_Machine\">digital archive<\/a> (and my tendency to post static rather than dynamic pages out of my blog databases), I can get a glimpse of how much I&#8217;ve tinkered with the site over the years:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/archives\/1999\/08\/settling_in.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"blog_history_1.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/img\/blog_history_1.jpg\" width=\"100%\" border=\"0\" vspace=\"5\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/archives\/2000\/08\/reflections_of.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"blog_history_2.png\" src=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/img\/blog_history_2.png\" width=\"100%\"  border=\"0\" vspace=\"5\"  \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/archives\/2003\/01\/unsettled.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"blog_history_3.png\" src=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/img\/blog_history_3.png\" width=\"100%\"  border=\"0\" vspace=\"5\"  \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/archives\/2004\/04\/rocket_science_1.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"blog_history_4.png\" src=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/img\/blog_history_4.png\" width=\"100%\"  border=\"0\" vspace=\"5\"  \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/archives\/2005\/03\/subway_smackdow.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"blog_history_5.png\" src=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/img\/blog_history_5.png\" width=\"100%\"  border=\"0\" vspace=\"5\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the things that&#8217;s always made me a little uneasy about designing things for the web is the likelihood of the stuff you make being wiped away for good once a site is updated. I tried to break myself of the habit of building comps in Photoshop relatively early (although I&#8217;d build some &#8220;furniture&#8221; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2013\/09\/13\/way_way_back\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Way, way back&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ultranerdy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2758\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}