{"id":6341,"date":"2017-04-26T12:52:02","date_gmt":"2017-04-26T16:52:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/?p=6341"},"modified":"2024-09-01T13:33:13","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T17:33:13","slug":"what-if-the-beatles-had-said-yes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/2017\/04\/26\/what-if-the-beatles-had-said-yes\/","title":{"rendered":"What If The Beatles Had Said Yes?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week was a guest editor week at <a href=\"http:\/\/kottke.org\">Kottke<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/snarkmarket.com\/\">Tim Carmody<\/a> took over and devoted the week to looking back at where and how the web has evolved over the past decade-plus, and revisiting some of the site\u2019s readers\u2019 favorite parts of the classic web.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday Carmody posted a piece called The Web is a portal to other words, and included links to all kinds of great What If posts from over the years. I glanced at a few, but one in particular caught my eye and forced me to read through with my full attention. I recommend you do the same, because it\u2019s really fantastic. And even knowing what actually happened over history, there are a few gut punch moments in this alternative timeline<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mightygodking.com\/2009\/11\/10\/scenes-from-an-alternate-universe-where-the-beatles-accepted-lorne-michaels-generous-offer\/\">Scenes From An Alternate Universe Where The Beatles Accepted Lorne Michaels\u2019 Generous Offer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>BTW, speaking of the classic web, I\u2019m guessing that Kottke is one of the two or three sites I\u2019ve followed the longest. I\u2019m still working through all of Carmody\u2019s pieces from last week, but may have to write more about the classic web soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week was a guest editor week at Kottke. Tim Carmody took over and devoted the week to looking back at where and how the web has evolved over the past decade-plus, and revisiting some of the site\u2019s readers\u2019 favorite parts of the classic web. On Thursday Carmody posted a piece called The Web is a portal to other words, and included links to all kinds of great What If posts from over the years. I glanced at a few, but one in particular caught my eye and forced me to read through with my full attention. I recommend you do the same, because it\u2019s really fantastic. And even knowing what actually happened over history, there are a few gut punch moments in this alternative timeline Scenes From An Alternate Universe Where The Beatles Accepted Lorne Michaels\u2019 Generous Offer. BTW, speaking of the classic web, I\u2019m guessing that Kottke is one of the two or three sites I\u2019ve followed the longest. I\u2019m still working through all of Carmody\u2019s pieces from last week, but may have to write more about the classic web soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[19,9,113],"class_list":["post-6341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-links","tag-music","tag-the-beatles"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6341"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13651,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6341\/revisions\/13651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}