Dole Kemp '96 (opens in new tab)

Not that I ever gave a wit about Bob Dole, but this is HN relevant:

Bill Clinton Wants to Put "Big Brother" in Your Computer

Bill Clinton believes in bureaucratic micro-management of the information economy.

Within his first 100 days as President, Bill Clinton proposed the Clipper Chip -- a secret government-controlled encryption algorithm -- and a companion key escrow system where two government agencies would hold a copy of the keys for every Clipper user. Since then Bill Clinton has released updated versions of encryption proposals which insist that the government hold a key to individual's private data communications.

The Clinton Administration's Internet Task Force has proposed legislation that would reduce the rights of users of copyrighted material if that information is used on the Internet. Their infamous "NII White Paper" ignored important court decisions which balance the rights of information users with those of information creators.

Bob Dole Will Protect the Constitutional Liberty of Internet Users...

Whenever I hear about Dole, I think immediately of Kang and Kodos:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=4v7XXSt9XRM

Getting a 503.

From web.archive.org: https://web.archive.org/web/20150403043329/http://dolekemp96...

Not only is this site still up (I'm assuming parts of it have gone down since it was originally posted), but the web-design firm that built the site still has a functioning front-page, made with the rock-hard kind of HTML design that maintain its appearance and functionality for at least the next decade of browser and standards changes:

http://www.presageinc.com/Presage%20Digital%20Stratgies.html

I think 1996 were the days in which high school age kids could get $30-$50 an hour making webpages of this quality for local businesses. That's not bad small town money when you adjust for inflation.

I actually remember watching Dole awkwardly calling out his "homepage" during a debate. For some reason I remember it as www.bobdole.com, which would have been an improvement over the real, mumbled thing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrDktE8D_gw&t=88m48s

...as for that election, the RNC basically just gave it to Clinton, allowing Kodos a chance to pretend to run for president as a reward for his decades of service in running for other elections. As it turns out, they should have gotten a relatively young Donald Trump to run.

Dole went on to be a prominent supporter of penis pills.

Whois Lookup:

  Domain Name:DOLEKEMP96.ORG
  Domain ID: D98201782-LROR
  Creation Date: 2003-05-27T14:15:22Z
  Updated Date: 2015-08-11T19:32:00Z

Cute.

A relic from the days when people thought that cheesy animated gifs that played continuously constituted good design.