The very first WordPress theme header-tagged the post dates with greater importance than the titles. SEO killed that quaint little idiosyncrasy in one blow.
Do you remember when WordPress.com stood high and mighty as the world's number one blogging platform? Have you ever tried to revisit some of the classic design themes that proliferated on WordPress before it morphed from the best ever blog-kickstarter into the worst ever website-builder? If so, you may have noticed that some of those oldies survived and are still deep-dig accessible, while others appear to have been completely airbrushed out of history.
Why is that? Why can you still select Twenty Eleven on WordPress.com, but not Twenty Ten? Why is it that all attempts to download oldies such as Contempt, iNove, The Journalist and Redoable Lite seem to lead to the same dead end?