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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