Japan in 2001, according to Google
You might have seen that to celebrate their 10th anniversary, Google has put their index from 2001 online. Let’s try a few searches and see how Japan looked then:
- Ken Y-N was Welsh
- What Japan Thinks thought about privatisation
- Japan Probe was favourable to Microsoft
- Japundit did not exist
- Danny Choo was Choo Choo Records
- Japan Soc was a newsgroup
- Tokyo Times was on Interesting People
- Trans-Pacific Radio was nuclear fallout
- Debito was still Debito
- an englishman in osaka was an englishman in new york
- The Long Countdown was 335 days, 2 hours and 4 minutes away from Christmas
- Nihon Hacks was a translation hack
- SUICA was someone in Guatamala
- taspo was the Trinidad All Steel Percussion Orchestra
- mixi was a Finnish kennel and cattery
- 3Yen was the non-consolidated interim financial results
- Japan Blog Matsuri was some eyecandy to start your day right
- TV In Japan provided top quality information via the borderless digital media
- Watashi to Tokyo had a pet name problem
- And finally, Gaijin Tonic was Gaijin A-GOGO
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Nick Ramsay said,
October 2, 2008 @ 23:58
That was so much fun! Thanks Ken!
Jeshii said,
October 3, 2008 @ 01:15
“Debito was still Debito”
ワロタｗ
Neil Duckett said,
October 3, 2008 @ 08:54
Very interesting indeed Ken!
Stranger in a strange land » Blog Archive » Back to simpler times said,
October 3, 2008 @ 08:54
[…] this on What Japan Thinks, but Google has put up their index from 2001 in honor of their 10th […]
Taro 3Yen said,
October 3, 2008 @ 09:04
The goddess “Geisha Asobi” was around and she posted in English and Japanese (rather than its current version “Weekly Teinou 蜂 Woman).
See:
http://wtbw.net/2008/10/2001.html