Bring on the crashing sounds of ACDC to be heard around the web… For Those About To Write HTML Tags (I Salute You)!
Stand up and be counted
Re-written ACDC Lyrics in the full turn it up to 11 spirit of parody https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/acdc/forthoseabouttorockwesaluteyou.html
For what you are about to receive
We are the web makers
HTML gives you everything you need
Hail, hail to the basic tags
‘Cause the web has got the right of way
We ain’t no trenders, ain’t no markters
We’re just writin’ the web every day
For those about to write HTML, we salute you
For those about to write HTML, we salute you
It’s all about an old t-shirt, one I found in the bottom/back of the drawer, and then posted on flickr.
A quick commenter, because comments are the magic glue, Grant said, “I’d love to see this shirt printed again.”
You have been heard.
Lacking a blog post, I am relying solely on my internal memory, but I believe I had found through search and image of the HTML letter rendered in ACDC that I wanted to use in a presentation. But the source of the image was from a T-shirt sold at from an online shop form what was a design firm called The Unrefinery — the site is gone, and the domain features something in Japanese that I cannot get Google to translate.
As always, some scouring in the Internet Archive not only found the old Unrefinery Shop, but even the shirt, called HT*ML Rocks! — “For those about to write semantic markup!”
I really wanted to juse the image, but in lieu of a proper open license, I made up my own conditions- I decided if I bought the shirt, I could justify re-using the image (no that would not hold up in court, but no one came suing me).
And thus it became a favorite shirt, though now extremely faded, torn, a tad… er…. small.
The whole archeology of old t-shirts led to today’s DS106 Daily Create I submitted (but used another old shirt) — https://daily.ds106.us/tdc4884/
Maybe I left the HT*ML shirt for my response?
So I thought, “Surely someone else is offering a shirt i this design (and stop calling my Shirley!)” I found one on Redbubble but I did not want the text below. There was another link for a design on Shirtboss that google indicated could generate the ACDC style with any text, but the link never opened.
The heck with the web, I can make this design myself! I found the perfect ACDC style font (for free) called Squealer. And in opening up Photoshop, I found from sheer trying that option-8 on my Mac in this font, rendered the lightning bolt.
Kaching! It took little effort to create a transparent PNG and upload it to my own shirt shop where it is now available for my billions of fans to order, as For Those About to Write Tags.
And just to be clear, in line with my non-commercial approach
Any “profits” from Threadless are sent to charity.
I’ll be ordering my own shirt, and ni about 14 years it will be worn and torn enough to re do this blog post into another one. This is just a dirty deed done dirt free along the highway to web hell as it ain’t no fund (waiting round to be a tech billionaire).
HTML rocks. Again.
Featured Image: My own creating of HTML rendered in AC/DC font style using the Squealor font. DO with it whatever you like!
So no purple then 😉
For you, Andy, I oblige. Purple added. Rev up a reload!
@barking @cogdog Thank you for putting all these bits together. I was mulling doing the same thing, because I zoomed in on your Flickr image and noticed the “Unrefinery” tag. You saved me the trouble.