{"id":1149,"date":"2005-03-04T09:46:44","date_gmt":"2005-03-04T04:46:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/?p=1149"},"modified":"2009-07-27T08:52:19","modified_gmt":"2009-07-27T03:52:19","slug":"happy-10-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/2005\/03\/happy-10-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy 10 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"10years\"<\/p>\n

It\u2019s hard to believe it\u2019s already been 10 years for the commercial web!\u00a0 All you kids out there (that\u2019s all of you 13 year olds that are signing up for livejournal<\/a> at lightening speed) that think the internet has always been around, get this – when you were three, the commercial web was only just beginning.<\/p>\n

I was in graduate school in New York when I made my first web page in my sanctioned web space on the school\u2019s server:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.school.edu\/awhole\/bunch\/of\/folders\/down\/to\/mine\/~echang\/<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That was back when the tilde \u2018~\u2019 was considered a cool addition to your URL instead of the way it is now, with total SEO madness, everything-is-dashed.com.\u00a0 I have fond memories of my 28.8k modem, the great dial-up \u201cbeep beep beep\u201d of FreePPP connecting to the internet.\u00a0 The connection was spotty and sometimes we had to entice it to connect by giving the internet monkey a banana (it\u2019s a long story\u2026 but remember webmonkey.com?).\u00a0 Hey, where did the internet go?\u00a0 Back then, I thought of it as \u201cthe internet,\u201d almost as though it was a physical thing.\u00a0 As I\u2019ve been immersed in it for the last ten years as both a maker of web (designing, creating, consulting, coding, and producing sites) and a total web consumer (of information, services, community, commerce, communication, research, creativity, etc), I\u2019m still driven by the power of the internet and the potential – for good.\u00a0 We need to look beyond the web as yet another business model and work towards that utopian dream of greater integration, easier communication, and more efficiency and control for the \u201cuser\u201d or individual.<\/p>\n

On a very personal level, the web has been the greatest influence on me in the last 10 years and it\u2019s only apropos that I\u2019m now physically close to the same places or people that have influenced me online for many years (and some of them I can see from my 11th floor view) – Wired, Organic, Frog, Adaptive Path, Six Apart, Apple, Alternet, Goto Media, Google, Browsercam, CNET, Lessig, Flickr, and so many others.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s to the two guys who started a little search engine in their trailer at Stanford 10 years ago and got me reminiscing: Yahoo! Netrospective: 10 years, 100 moments of the Web<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s hard to believe it\u2019s already been 10 years for the commercial web!\u00a0 All you kids out there (that\u2019s all of you 13 year olds that are signing up for livejournal at lightening speed) that think the internet has always been around, get this – when you were three, the commercial web was only just…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1150,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[408,409,120,45,14],"class_list":["post-1149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bookmarks","tag-internet","tag-memes","tag-milestone","tag-technology","tag-web"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1149\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}