{"id":14856,"date":"2023-05-24T10:00:37","date_gmt":"2023-05-24T15:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=14856"},"modified":"2023-05-24T22:36:26","modified_gmt":"2023-05-25T03:36:26","slug":"traers-q-website-restored","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2023\/05\/traers-q-website-restored\/","title":{"rendered":"Traer’s Q website restored"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have done my best Indiana Jones impersonation and plumbed the depths of the Internet Archive to bring back a little bit of the 20th century: Traer’s Quasquicentennial (125th) anniversary website<\/a>. This set of webpages appears to have eluded multiple computers and Zip disks, but I think about 85% is there.<\/p>\n

The complete schedule for the second weekend of August 1998 is there, as is a rundown of associated events in the first half of the year.<\/p>\n

What isn’t there is pretty random: A lightened version of the 125th logo used as a background on multiple pages, the big version of the second “Where in Traer” contest, the February calendar image, and a couple little icons from the calendar.<\/p>\n

Back in the ’90s we made websites with colored and mottled backgrounds. One of the Q pages, about a traveling replica of the Vietnam Wall, had a black marble background. This image (which is tiled as needed) wasn’t archived, but I was able to find a version by tracking the file name<\/a> and stumbling upon a really, really Netscape-era Tripod (!!!) site from user “coopiedog”<\/a>. (It took WORK to make pages like that! We had to churn the code by hand or use steam-powered HTML editors!)<\/p>\n

There’s no specific website for the sesquicentennial this year. The town’s website has information, but most everything else is put on a Facebook page<\/a>.<\/p>\n

EDIT: You know what would be really swell? Actually putting a link up there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have done my best Indiana Jones impersonation and plumbed the depths of the Internet Archive to bring back a little bit of the 20th century: Traer’s Quasquicentennial (125th) anniversary website. This set of webpages appears to have eluded multiple … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tama-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14856"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14896,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14856\/revisions\/14896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}