{"id":12717,"date":"2024-07-10T01:12:30","date_gmt":"2024-07-10T05:12:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=12717"},"modified":"2024-07-10T01:12:30","modified_gmt":"2024-07-10T05:12:30","slug":"i-forgot-to-celebrate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=12717","title":{"rendered":"I forgot to celebrate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was so busy with things like Linux updates, I forgot to celebrate. My main Internet domain, vttoth.com, was 30 years old just ten days ago.<\/p>\n<pre style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">$ whois vttoth.com | grep \"^Creation Date\"\r\nCreation Date: 1994-06-30T23:00:00Z<\/pre>\n<p>To be sure, it&#8217;s not the oldest domain in existence, not by a longshot.<\/p>\n<pre style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">$ whois oracle.com | grep \"^Creation Date\"\r\nCreation Date: 1988-12-02T05:00:00+0000<\/pre>\n<p>But then, look at these guys:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">$ whois facebook.com | grep \"^Creation Date\"\r\nCreation Date: 1997-03-29T05:00:00Z\r\n$ whois google.com | grep \"^Creation Date\"\r\nCreation Date: 1997-09-15T07:00:00+0000\r\n$ whois whitehouse.gov | grep \"Creation Date\"\r\nCreation Date: 1997-10-02T01:29:32Z<\/pre>\n<p>So yes, I suppose I&#8217;ve been around. Here&#8217;s the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/19961230104643\/http:\/\/www.vttoth.com\/\">earliest version<\/a> of my Web site as remembered by The Wayback Machine:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12718\" src=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/vttoth-1996.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"596\" height=\"561\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Well, I suppose Web sites have become a tad more sophisticated since then.<\/p>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=12717' send='false' layout='button_count' show_faces='true' width='450' height='65' action='like' colorscheme='light' font='lucida grande'><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was so busy with things like Linux updates, I forgot to celebrate. My main Internet domain, vttoth.com, was 30 years old just ten days ago. $ whois vttoth.com | grep &#8220;^Creation Date&#8221; Creation Date: 1994-06-30T23:00:00Z To be sure, it&#8217;s not the oldest domain in existence, not by a longshot. $ whois oracle.com | grep <a href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=12717' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-personal","category-6-id","category-35-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12717"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12721,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12717\/revisions\/12721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}