{"id":26309,"date":"2019-08-16T15:37:41","date_gmt":"2019-08-16T19:37:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=26309"},"modified":"2019-08-19T15:02:25","modified_gmt":"2019-08-19T19:02:25","slug":"the-version-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/16\/the-version-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"The Version Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kottke.org\/19\/08\/the-version-museum\">Jason Kottke<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/kottke.org\/19\/08\/the-version-museum\"><p>The mission of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.versionmuseum.com\/\">Version Museum<\/a> is to record and present what the interfaces of software and websites looked like, from their earliest versions until now. The site&rsquo;s tagline is &ldquo;a visual history of your favorite technology&rdquo;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>For example, it has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.versionmuseum.com\/history-of\/amazon-website\">Amazon&rsquo;s first Web site<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.versionmuseum.com\/history-of\/adobe-photoshop\">Adobe Photoshop<\/a>,  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.versionmuseum.com\/history-of\/itunes-app\">iTunes<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.versionmuseum.com\/history-of\/microsoft-word\">Microsoft Word<\/a>, as well as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.versionmuseum.com\/history-of\/classic-mac-os\">classic Mac OS<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.versionmuseum.com\/history-of\/mac-os-x\">Mac OS X<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.versionmuseum.com\/history-of\/ios\">iOS<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/03\/apple-developer-cd-covers\/\">Apple Developer CD Covers<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/23\/aqua-screenshot-library\/\">Aqua Screenshot Library<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/24\/mac-and-ios-wallpaper-archive\/\">Mac and iOS Wallpaper Archive<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/29\/vintage-macworld-magazine-library\/\">Vintage Macworld Magazine Library<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/13\/a-brief-visual-history-of-apple-home-page-tabs\/\">A Brief Visual History of Apple Home Page Tabs<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/06\/macaddict-cover-discs-archive\/\">MacAddict Cover Discs Archive<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p id=\"the-version-museum-update-2019-08-19\">Update (2019-08-19): <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/doekezanstra\/status\/1162720713863770114\">Doeke Zanstra<\/a> has a collection of <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.zanstra.com\/2019\/08\/17\/Office-for-OS-X-icons.html\">Microsoft Office icons<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jason Kottke: The mission of Version Museum is to record and present what the interfaces of software and websites looked like, from their earliest versions until now. The site&rsquo;s tagline is &ldquo;a visual history of your favorite technology&rdquo;. For example, it has Amazon&rsquo;s first Web site, Adobe Photoshop, iTunes, Microsoft Word, as well as classic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2019-08-16T19:37:43Z","apple_news_api_id":"b0e02256-8993-402c-90ee-269f353bb419","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2019-08-19T19:02:31Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAQ==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AsOAiVomTQCyQ7iafNTu0GQ","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[332,19,38,25,295,545,852,31,224,1277,30,724,1609,609,445,1456,219,459],"class_list":["post-26309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-photoshop","tag-amazon","tag-apple","tag-facebook","tag-history","tag-icons","tag-internet-explorer","tag-ios","tag-itunes","tag-logo","tag-mac","tag-mac-os-x-10-0-cheetah","tag-macos-10-14","tag-microsoft-excel","tag-microsoftword","tag-the-new-york-times","tag-windows","tag-yahoo"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26309"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26320,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26309\/revisions\/26320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}