whitehouse.gov

whitehouse.gov (also simply known as wh.gov) is the official website of the White House and is owned by the United States government. It was launched in October 1994 by the Clinton Administration.[3]

Whitehouse.gov
Current Monogram of the White House Website
Type of site
Government
Available inEnglish, Spanisha
OwnerFederal government of the United States
URLwhitehouse.gov
wh.gov (short link, a redirect)
CommercialNo
LaunchedOctober 20, 1994 (1994-10-20)[1][2]
Current statusActive
The website during the presidency of Bill Clinton, 1995
The website following the inauguration of Barack Obama, January 20, 2009

The content of the website is in the public domain or licensed under Creative Commons Attribution license.[4]

Content

The content of the White House website is designed to be an open portfolio for the public to know the current operations of the President during his/her presidency. The website contains information about the President, the Vice President, their families, press releases, proclamations, executive orders, and a transcript of speeches by White House officials.

The website also provides information about the current issues the President and Vice President address (like Education, Healthcare, etc.), also providing information about the History of the White House Building, Air Force One, and Camp David. The website also reviews the structure of the Federal government of the United States, including details about state and Local government, along with Voting and Elections.

The website also offers information about Getting Involved with the White House. This includes directions on how to write or call the White House, learn about the White House Internship Program and White House Fellows program.

The site also contained details about the presidents Cabinet of the United States and the Executive Office of the President of the United States

Sites difference in each administration

After a new administration is sworn in on Inauguration Day, the website is immediately redesigned with the details of the new administration and designed the site to the needs and vision of the new administration.

Past administrations website will be archive as historical material “frozen in time”. The latest version of WhiteHouse.gov is from the Presidency of Donald Trump now using https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/ as its URL since January 20, 2021.

Civic engagement
Main article: We the People (petitioning system)

On September 1, 2011, David Plouffe, Former Senior Advisor to the President of the United States to Barack Obama, announced in an email that the White House is releasing "We the People". An online platform for the public to create petitions to the US Government. The launch of the petitioning platform was announced by Katelyn Sabochik September 22, 2011 in a White House blog post.[5]

The platform was temporarily shut down by the Trump administration as it would be replaced with a "new platform [that] would save taxpayers more than $1m a year" as announced on December 19, 2017.

Platform
See also: List of Linux adopters and Linux adoption

In July 2001,[6] the White House started switching their web servers to an operating system based on Red Hat Linux and using the Apache HTTP Server.[7] The installation was completed in February 2009.[8][9] In October 2009, the White House web servers adopted Drupal, a free and open-source content management system,[10][11] which runs on Red Hat Enterprise Linux.[12]

In December 2017, the Trump administration launched a redesigned website which it claims will save taxpayers "as much $3 million annually".[13]

See also

Notes

^a A Spanish version of whitehouse.gov is currently available under the Biden Administration and was also used during the Bush and Obama administrations. During the Trump Administration, the Spanish version of whitehouse.gov was removed. There is also archived Spanish versions of the website from the Bush and Obama administrations.

References
  1. "Vice President Unveils First Interactive Citizens' Handbook". The White House, Office of the Vice President. October 20, 1994. Retrieved February 15, 2011.
  2. "WhiteHouse.gov WHOIS, DNS, & Domain Info - DomainTools". WHOIS. Retrieved September 20, 2016.
  3. "Scout Report: Week ending October 21, 1994". October 21, 1994. Retrieved December 28, 2008.
  4. "Copyright Policy". whitehouse.gov. January 16, 2017. Retrieved January 24, 2017.
  5. "White House blog press release regarding the new "We the People" petitioning platform". WhiteHouse.gov. September 22, 2011.
  6. John Leyden (July 24, 2001). "White House Web site moves to Linux". The Register. Retrieved August 26, 2011.
  7. Savio Rodrigues (October 28, 2009). "How Whitehouse.gov Will Bring Open Source To The American Spotlight". LinuxProNews.com. Retrieved August 26, 2011.
  8. Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols (October 29, 2009). "Obama Invites Open Source into the White House". PC World. Retrieved August 26, 2011.
  9. Netcraft (August 26, 2011). "OS, Web Server and Hosting History for whitehouse.gov". Netcraft. Retrieved August 26, 2011.
  10. OSTP Director John P. Holdren (April 7, 2010). "Office of Science & Technology - Open Government Plan". The White House. Retrieved August 26, 2011.
  11. Justin Ryan (April 22, 2010). "Oval Office Goes Open Source". Linux Journal. Retrieved August 26, 2011.
  12. "Red Hat's Decade of Collaboration with Government and the Open Source Community". Red Hat. Retrieved July 29, 2017.
  13. "White House website redesigned to save taxpayers '$3 million per year'". Washington Examiner. December 14, 2017. Retrieved July 17, 2018.
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