In honor of Google’s 10th year anniversary, they’ve brought back their oldest available index dated 2001. Google only had over 1.3 billion webpages indexed that time and it’s a little nostalgic to do some ego-searching on that year.
A search for “yugatech” in 2001 reveals my old website hosted on HyperMart.net. It was an “AnandTech” wannabe.
Back then, .com domains were still $35 a year but there were at least two services that gave out free domains in exchange for free banner ads (via an ad bar) like NameDemo.
My university-hosted page also shows up when searching for my name and it showed our project page on WireLess LAN. I was playing around with 2Mbps WiFi networks back in 1999.
Check out Google in 2001.
whoa Abe you’re a legend @ the Filipino internet community. Back in 2001 i was like 16 years old playing pc games like hell.
Wish i started earlier
More power and keep it up, love your blog!
Dale
mp3-codes.com
musicdumper.com
Twitter: kzapkzap
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I had hypermart too
http://www.google.com/search2001/search?hl=en&q=andre+marcelo-tanner&btnG=Google+Search
Twitter: deuts
says:
Too bad it wasn’t January of 2002. My name should have appeared in the search results if it was 2002 instead.
Google now Translate to Filipino language, check it out:
http://translate.google.com.ph/translate_t?hl=tl
I was there too
heavenslair.virtualave.net
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Twitter: littlewolf
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ooh… Hypermart. I faintly remember looking into that hosting site back in 03 when I was searching for webhosts for my fansite. I eventually ended up getting a plan from a local webhost.
@Alwell: oh, fancy seeing you here.. hehe! I didn’t know heavenslair did not have its own domain before.
My first site was a school project so naturally it would be hosted in geocities. That was… early 2003. Too bad. Tried my full name too.. I’m not “searchable” yet back in 2001.
Twitter: blankpixels
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I tried looking for the website I made for my irc channel back in 1999. It wasn’t indexed. I wasn’t that aware yet of ways to be indexed. It was on a free domain back then. Hehehe. Thanks for the info!