To celebrate its 10th birthday, Google has scoured its archives for the most complete archived index, from way back in January 2001. The company has also paired with the Internet Archive to show what sites looked like almost 8 years ago. We've sure come a long way.
Barack Obama was a just a state senator in Illinois.
9/11 was just another day.
The War on Terror was only used in headlines.
The iPod was 9 months away from being introduced and the iPhone was just a product from Cisco.
Facebook, MySpace and Twitter hadn't burst onto the scene -- and maybe the world was better for it.
Can you find any interesting results?
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Sarah Palin was no where to be found.
Try looking for "Web 2.0".
Try a search for 'sarah palin alaska'. There are a few hits
This search is appropriate:
http://www.google.com/search2001/search?q=naked+short+selling&hl=en
Searching "subprime" brought back some interesting results.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was an academic; Nicolas Sarkozy was a mayor who had resigned from the RPR leadership (and UMP had nothing to do with French politics); Angela Merkel was the head of the CDU, but it was the opposition at the time; Taro Aso was economics minister Department of Homeland Security did not exist (though there were recommendations for a National Homeland Security Agency); Michael Chertoff was a legal advisor, Tom Ridge a governor, and Michael Mukasey a district judge; John G. Roberts did not exist, and "John Roberts" referred to a number of people but apparently not the lawyer.
gmail was a GNOME mail reader; Wikipedia had a capital 'P'; reddit was a Latin word; "Windows Vista" always had punctuation between the two words, as did "Google Earth"; and flickr was some program from an old copy of Dr Dobb's.
I thought these were pretty cool...
Try,
DIGG
Firefox
Ubuntu
Dual Core
Larry Page
AJAX
patriot act - The PATRIOT Act: Protecting Revolutionary War Battlefields
Fight to Save the Paoli and Brandywine Battlefields.
ahh, better times.
YouTube
Vista
Mac OSX
NIN
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This is turning into a fun searching game, thanks Google!
That's what I thought too, but then I searched for "palin wasilla" (without quotes) and there were some strings of "sarah palin" even though "sarah palin" (with the quotes) returns nothing. Weird.
rationalitate.blogspot.com
The latest archive of Blizzard they announce World of Warcraft. :\
Try these:
oil price barrel
electric car
FiOS
Tmobile (only an ipo announcement, but voicestream was kickin)
hddvd (no sign of bluray)
3dfx
techtv
mst3k
tom cruise katie holmes (no hits)
angelina jolie movie (tomb raider)
digital camera megapixel
gamecube (wii nowhere to be found)
kevin mitnick
attack of the clones (or revenge of the sith for that matter)
untitled project
duke nukem forever
You can check the Zeitgeist out with a little digging around; http://web.archive.org/web/20011217185137/www.google.com/press/zeitgeist... 53% of users connected using Windows98 at the time.
Try:
911
index is appearently from earlier than september 2001 :D
Try Wikipedia
try "Osama Bin Laden"
wow scary
I found it interesting to search for a bunch of different news papers and see the dates listed
NY times : December 17th 2001
Chicago Tribune: December 17th 2001
Kitchener Record: Oct. 6, 2001
Sault Star: December 13, 2001
National Post: December 15, 2001
Toronto Star: Jan. 26, 2002
Look up "national debt", it was 09/28/2001 $5,807,463,412,200.06
YouTube searched up nothing!
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