Google's 2001 Search Index, and the Site That Gave Birth To Thoughts Media

[Ed Hansberry]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.google.com/search2001.html' target='_blank'>http://www.google.com/search2001.html</a><br /><br /></div><p>As part of Google's 10th anniversary celebration, they are making their oldest saved <a href="http://www.google.com/search2001.html" target="_blank">index from 2001 available again</a>. For grins, I did a search for Pocket PC and number 4 on the list was Pocket PC Thoughts, complete with a link to the web archive - on my birthday coincidentally. <img src="http://www.ehansberry.com/ppct/smile.gif" border="0" />&nbsp;So even just a few months after the Pocket PC's April 2001 launch, Pocket PC Thoughts was one of the top ranked sites according to Google. As I look through the names of Editors on the site back then, only Jason Dunn remains.<br /><br /><img src="http://www.ehansberry.com/ppct/2008/20081002-ppctlogo.jpg" border="0" /><br /><br />That's right. Look at that big impressive HP Jornada 540 series device in the logo. Go ahead, admit it, you know you want one. <img src="http://www.ehansberry.com/ppct/lol.gif" border="0" />&nbsp;Of course, I am sure today's logo will look just as silly in 2015 when we all have our phones down to the size of a pea embedded in our ears. Other things though will likely remain constant: it will still have Solitaire, won't have a close button and Windows Mobile Device Center for Windows 10 will still be trashing my favorites.</p>

[David Tucker]

They better not get rid of Solitaire!

[Jason Dunn]

Ah, the memories. And that logo! Bradley Hand ITC was the font...I always liked that font. :D

[Felix Torres]

I *still* favor the 560 series.
Best ebook ergonomics of any palmsized ereader.
And who can resist the Trek-style flip cover...?:D

[David Tucker]

The 565 was my first PPC and it was my favorite until I got my Axim X30

[cab124]

Of course, I am sure today's logo will look just as silly in 2015 when we all have our phones down to the size of a pea embedded in our ears. Other things though will likely remain constant: it will still have Solitaire, won't have a close button and Windows Mobile Device Center for Windows 10 will still be trashing my favorites.

2015? ...when we are all using Windows Mobile 7.1.

[fulltilt]

I was soo ready for thoughts to launch (hence my early adoption as a thoughts member). When I got my Cassopeia E-10 (20th century) there wasn't a whole lot of choice out there...ppc passion...and a few others.

[fmcpherson]

It gets better, check this out..

http://web.archive.org/web/20010801143332/www.microsoft.com/mobile/default.asp

[Ed Hansberry]

it gets better, check this out..

http://web.archive.org/web/20010801143332/www.microsoft.com/mobile/default.asp

ahhhhhh!!! My eyes...my eyes..... :d

[marlof]

Thanks for the trip through memory lane, Ed.

[heliod]

Even though I enjoy the site very much today, I still miss the days of PocketPCThoughts with Marlof and Andy.

And the days when the PocketPC market was something very new, naive somehow, in which every thing that appears is a new, thrilling technology..... where have those days gone?

[emuelle1]

I'm sure Windows Mobile Device Center will still find a way to regularly duplicate most of my items, especially every time I get a new device or set up a new partnership. I've never had a problem with Favorites, but I don't use them much.

[Don't Panic!]

Ah 2001, I miss the bad old days. Porn posters to fight with, PALM Vs PPC flame wars. It's so much more civilized now. That's a good thing!

[timmy]

Ah, sweet iPaq 3600.... Really fast device when it was released, but with, as I remember it, lousy battery life.

Seeing the index makes me aware of how time flies.. So I have been reading PPC Thoughts for at least 7 years :eek: !! (I think I started even earlier though, but can't remember exactly)


As I look through the names of Editors on the site back then, only Jason Dunn remains.


It would be quite fun with an article like "What are they doing now?"

I know from magazine articles that Andy is still working with mobile devices within Capgemini in Sweden.

[Ed Hansberry]

It would be quite fun with an article like "What are they doing now?"

I know from magazine articles that Andy is still working with mobile devices within Capgemini in Sweden.

I think Marlof got a grant from the govenrment and built a big super collider in Switzerland and named it after his dog, Hadron, which is Dutch for "speedy" I think.

I could have my facts wrong on that though.

[timmy]

Haha... Very speedy I guess :D

[Down8]

Want a Jornada?

Shoot, I had a Jornada 548. My first PPC, and it was awesome.

If the back light worked, I could still use it... for... reading .lits?

-bZj

[Steven Cedrone]

My Jornada still works - My kids play with it all the time! Man, I loved that device!!! :)