{"id":3823,"date":"2013-12-01T21:20:57","date_gmt":"2013-12-02T03:20:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oldschoolhiphop.com\/?p=3823"},"modified":"2013-12-03T12:47:23","modified_gmt":"2013-12-03T18:47:23","slug":"oldschoolhiphop-com-celebrates-15-years-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldschoolhiphop.com\/headlines\/oldschoolhiphop-com-celebrates-15-years-online.htm","title":{"rendered":"OldSchoolHipHop.Com Celebrates 15 Years Online"},"content":{"rendered":"
It was December 1, 1998 when a site called “To the Beat Y’all” first hit the net with a simple idea: \u00a0preserve the legacy of hip hop pioneers.<\/p>\n
At the time, I was recently laid off from my job and needed something to keep me busy while I searched for a new one. \u00a0I figured this internet thing might take off so I thought I’d try my hand a building a web site. \u00a0Coming up with an original idea was the first thing. \u00a0I ran through a lot of topics mostly music related. \u00a0I\u00a0wanted something I had some knowledge of, would enjoy working on, and frankly, something I thought would be cool to part of.<\/p>\n
Old School Hip Hop checked all of those boxes.<\/p>\n
So I signed up for a free GeoCities account and off I went. \u00a0The site was originally built using Netscape Composer. \u00a0After about six months I was surprised at the traffic I was getting (which was still tiny) so I decided to grab an actual domain and see how it would work. \u00a0When I went to register a domain “oldschoolrap.com” was already taken (although it wasn’t been used if I recall), so I went on to “oldschoolhiphop.com” instead.<\/p>\n
Over the last fifteen years I’ve redesigned the site countless times (usually about every 2 years or so) moving from Composer to Front Page to Dreamweaver and now WordPress. \u00a0As a nod to the first version site, the favicon I currently use is actually the silhouette of DMC I used in the original logo for “To the Beat Y’all”.<\/p>\n
Here are some of the old logos through the years:<\/p>\n