{"id":12,"date":"1999-12-19T12:00:55","date_gmt":"1999-12-19T12:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ngo.tv\/blog\/?p=12"},"modified":"2026-01-05T20:30:02","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T20:30:02","slug":"dgen-launches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/1999\/12\/19\/dgen-launches\/","title":{"rendered":"d::gen launches"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>d::gen launched (although it existed inside some other sites from about 1997) &#8211; after I left <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virgin.net\">Virgin.net<\/a>, and just after setting up Tornado Productions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first &#8216;travel blog&#8217; type project I did was in March 1999 when I went to <a href=\"https:\/\/dgen.net\/china\/\">China<\/a> (and just as the term was coming into existence)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of course, it then took me another 7 years to actually set up a proper one&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I decided to retro-fit some historical stuff in here so I don&#8217;t forget it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>d::gen launched (although it existed inside some other sites from about 1997) &#8211; after I left Virgin.net, and just after setting up Tornado Productions. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7714,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,44,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-startups","category-work"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-content\/uploads\/1999\/12\/dgen-banner.gif","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pfJFK3-c","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7713,"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions\/7713"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}