Remember when...

Before Barack Obama had time to finish his inauguration speech, his message of Change had already hit the interwebs. Gizmodo grabbed a shot of the new Whitehouse.gov under Obama and compared it to what the site looked like the day George W. Bush first took office.

Obama's Whitehouse.gov, 2009

















Bush's Whitehouse.gov, 2001

It was such a simpler time. A time before we had to perform a security striptease to board a flight from DC to Ft. Lauderdale. A time before rainbow-colored warnings. And, apparently a time before anyone started worrying about pesky things like pixelation, Flash, or the basic aesthetics of web design.


I miss that innocence.