{"id":29917,"date":"2017-04-30T03:01:02","date_gmt":"2017-04-29T17:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/?p=29917"},"modified":"2017-04-30T11:50:01","modified_gmt":"2017-04-30T01:50:01","slug":"nostalgia-game-primer-tutorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/nostalgia-game-primer-tutorial\/","title":{"rendered":"Nostalgia Game Primer Tutorial"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 230px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a target=_blank href=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/HTMLCSS\/nostalgia.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; border: 15px solid pink;\" alt=\"Nostalgia Game Primer Tutorial\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/HTMLCSS\/nostalgia.jpg\" title=\"Nostalgia Game Primer Tutorial\"  \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nostalgia Game Primer Tutorial<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Was sad to hear of the closing of Ermington Putt Putt Golf the other day.  Maybe Putt Putt Golf is on the cheesy side, but it is sad to see innocent entertainments like this go in the community, especially regarding great places for children&#8217;s birthday parties, as was the case for us the time we got 10 over par (if we fudge the scorecard just a little bit).  So <a target=_blank title='Last day' href='http:\/\/www.dailytelegraph.com.au\/newslocal\/northern-district-times\/after-47-years-the-iconic-putt-putt-at-ermington-will-officially-close-its-doors-on-april-30\/news-story\/262b52b661a5a67bed50960e2601c96f'>30th April<\/a> is its last day, sadly.  Remember, as kids, my brother and I climbing the &#8220;mountain&#8221; (=200 mole hills) at Mermaid Beach Putt Putt, rather than paying for the chairlift, to get up to the Putt Putt Golf there.<\/p>\n<p>Then yesterday&#8217;s <a target=_blank title='Those were the days!' href='http:\/\/nostalgiacentral.com\/television\/tv-by-decade\/tv-shows-1970s\/variety-italian-style\/'>Variety Italian Style<\/a> got me to thinking &#8220;Nostalgia&#8221; big time &#8230; Mario Milano, Bugs Bunny, school holidays <strike>etcetera etcetera<\/strike><a target=_blank title='Yada Yada' href='https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=O6kRqnfsBEc'>yada yada<\/a>, so decided to write a web application channelling &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a target=_blank title='YouTube videos' href='https:\/\/www.youtube.com'>YouTube<\/a> video via its <a target=_blank title='Useful API' href='https:\/\/developers.google.com\/youtube\/iframe_api_reference'>Embedded Iframe API<\/a> &#8230; and\/or &#8230;<\/li>\n<li><a target=_blank title='Google search engine search' href='https:\/\/www.google.com'>Google<\/a> search<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> &#8230; to offer users of our HTML and Javascript web application <a target=_blank title='Click picture' href='http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/HTMLCSS\/nostalgia.html'>live run<\/a>&#8216;s underlying <a target=_blank title='nostalgia.html' href='http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/HTMLCSS\/nostalgia.html_GETME'>nostalgia.html<\/a> source code, for your perusal.<\/p>\n<p>Naturally, you&#8217;re likely to go &#8230; whaaaaatttt &#8230; at a lot of the nostalgia reminiscence suggestions that sprung to my mind &#8230; a lot by free association &#8230; but there is an option there for you to enter in your own &#8220;Nostalgia Search Topic&#8221; should you want it to be looked up on the huge world wide web resources that YouTube and Google are &#8230; thanks.<\/p>\n<p>If this was interesting you may be interested in <a title='Click here to see topics in which you might be interested' href='#d29917' onclick='var dv=document.getElementById(\"d29917\"); dv.innerHTML = \"&lt;iframe width=670 height=600 src=\" + \"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/tag\/iframe\" + \"&gt;&lt;\/iframe&gt;\"; dv.style.display = \"block\";'>this<\/a> too.<\/p>\n<div id='d29917' style='display: none; border-left: 2px solid green; border-top: 2px solid green;'><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Was sad to hear of the closing of Ermington Putt Putt Golf the other day. 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