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Old 08-09-2009, 11:01 AM   #1
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Think back to five years ago today. The date was December 31st, 2004
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Old 08-09-2009, 11:03 AM   #2
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Er, 5 years ago today was most certainly not 31st December 2004.
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Old 08-09-2009, 11:03 AM   #3
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Er, 5 years ago today was most certainly not 31st December 2004.
True, it's an estimate, right? I don't think archive.org allows to go back in time on a day by day basis.
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True, it's an estimate, right? I don't think archive.org allows to go back in time on a day by day basis.
yes, approx 5 years ago
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Old 08-09-2009, 02:23 PM   #6
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Er, 5 years ago today was most certainly not 31st December 2004.
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Old 08-09-2009, 03:00 PM   #7
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Wasn't the site called "turcic.com" back then?
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Old 08-09-2009, 03:13 PM   #8
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Wow, I had no idea this site has been around that long. I love archive.org...I often look up some of my old sites and laugh!
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Old 08-09-2009, 05:30 PM   #9
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Things have changed quite a lot in five years.
Its was all PDA,PDA,PDA back then and not a drop of e-ink to go around
I didn't realise mobipocket store and fictionwise were full into the selling of ebooks back then.
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Old 08-09-2009, 05:36 PM   #10
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Wow, I was reading on an iPaq back then and thought it was cool technology.
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Old 08-09-2009, 06:10 PM   #11
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In 2004, I had heard of eBooks and had downloaded a couple from PG and Baen. I even had Mobipocket Reader and Rocket Reader installed on my computer, but found that I was not interested in reading on the computer monitor, so I just stuck with paper books. I never had a PDA, so didn't even know that book-reading software existed for it. Once the Kindle came out, I was hooked.
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Old 08-09-2009, 06:33 PM   #12
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2004... That was also the last year of major new PDA release with the release of the Hx4700, the X50V & the Loox 720. Since then the market totally switched to smartphones. Luckily for us the e-ink devices started to become mainstream soon thereafter.

I was reading on a Toshiba e800 back then.
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Its was all PDA,PDA,PDA back then and not a drop of e-ink to go around
I didn't realise mobipocket store and fictionwise were full into the selling of ebooks back then.
I have ebooks that I bought from Fictionwise in Jan 2003, and I'm pretty sure they'd been around for at least a year or two before that.
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