{"id":2765,"date":"2012-09-24T09:05:58","date_gmt":"2012-09-24T12:05:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/?p=2765"},"modified":"2012-09-24T09:05:58","modified_gmt":"2012-09-24T12:05:58","slug":"10-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/2012\/09\/24\/10-years\/","title":{"rendered":"10 years!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wow, today is the <a href=\"\/blog\/2002\/09\/24\/about-this-sites-design\/\" target=\"_blank\">10th anniversary of this blog<\/a>; at least that&#8217;s the oldest post still preserved in my database. Most of the pieces were already in place in early 2002, but it took me some time to get everything running. At the time, I based the blog on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.phpbb.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">phpbb<\/a>, but a few years ago I migrated to WordPress; only the support forums, which get very little use these days, still use phpbb. Here&#8217;s a screenshot of the early days:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Nov20021.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2767\" title=\"Nov2002 \u00a92002 Rainer Brockerhoff\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Nov20021.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"213\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Nov20021.png 540w, https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Nov20021-300x118.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The cringe-inducing title was patterned after several similar ones I saw at the time; later on, no doubt under <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_spacecraft_in_the_Culture_series\" target=\"_blank\">the influence of Iain M. Banks<\/a>, I changed to the current &#8220;Solipsism Gradient&#8221;, which I still think quite descriptive. I&#8217;m still working up the nerve to ask him to use the name in an upcoming book, though&#8230; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>But earlier versions were still more cringe-inducing, look at this one, from mid-2000:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Jul2000.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2768\" title=\"Jul2000 Copyright \u00a92000 Rainer Brockerhoff\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Jul2000.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"421\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Jul2000.png 540w, https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Jul2000-300x233.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>At least I can safely say there&#8217;s no &lt;blink&gt; tag, and the animated GIF for the visitor counter was actually well-received; can&#8217;t really use it again as there are too few digits to be future-proof, but here&#8217;s what it looked like:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/ctr.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center>Well, life goes on. In a few days we&#8217;ll take a month off, flying in to Denver and driving around the parks between Mt. Rushmore, Yellowstone, Salt Lake City and Bryce Canyon. If all goes well, I&#8217;ll be able to work and post from underway. To coin a phrase, &#8220;we have cool things in the pipeline&#8221;&#8230; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow, today is the 10th anniversary of this blog; at least that&#8217;s the oldest post still preserved in my database. Most of the pieces were already in place in early 2002, but it took me some time to get everything running. At the time, I based the blog on phpbb, but a few years ago [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10,8],"tags":[36],"class_list":["post-2765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meta","category-travel","tag-history"],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Rainer Brockerhoff","author_link":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/author\/rbrockerhoff\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1q3Zc-IB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}