Adopt a Vegetarian
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I was just digging through some old files, and I came across my first web pages. They were hand written HTML done in late 1995.  Among the worst of them design-wise was my 'Adopt a Vegetarian' page.  It was a joke started in October 1995 wherein non-vegetarians would "adopt" vegetarians and agree to eat twice as much meat, so as to balance the vegetarian out.

The Adopt a Vegetarian website was up before most of the world had even heard of the web, and certainly before folks learned not to take anything on-line too seriously.  The volume of vitriolic hate mail I got was amazing.  I wish I'd have saved them.  The site existed during the period when the mainstream press was writing a lot of "gee whiz, look at this crazy website" articles.  I ended up getting written about in a few different publications including `Der Spiegel`_ (wikipedia_), which I've got clipped and stored somewhere.

Anyway, I re-rendered the site for the first time in ages, and here's a screen shot to that monument of bad taste in both design and humor.

|adoptaveggie.gif|







.. _Der Spiegel: http://www.spiegel.de/

.. _wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Der_Spiegel


.. |adoptaveggie.gif| image:: /unblog/static/attachments/2005-04-06-adoptaveggie.gif


.. date: 1112763600
.. tags: funny,ideas-built