While digging around in drawers that hadn't been touched for decades, I found a wonderful piece of history. The Palm Treo 600 [1] was the Mercedes-Benz of the cellphone 10 years ago, and I was lucky enough to rediscover one.[2]
So I decided to restore it to working order, slapping in a T-Mobile SIM[3] and a fresh battery. It worked! It could browse the Internet[4], send/receive text messages[5], make phone calls...[6] The onboard browser even passed Acid1[7,8] and could do some level of JavaScript![9]
Unfortunately, most websites were a little heavy on this poor thing's CPU. One site that I knew wasn't heavy was Hacker News!
Unfortunately again, it didn't work. It "didn't work" in an odd way, though: it raised a "Communication Error" that would never occur on other pages, just Hacker News. So I did what any inquisitive individual would do: record a video, and ask HN support!
This is what I sent: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nqn-EmU5KPw
This is what they got back to me with: http://i.imgur.com/LuPHqiN.png
I am truly honored to accept this award. I'd like to thank Palm, for making such an incredible phone (10 days of battery life!), as well as the Academy. And also my parents. And you, dear reader. Thank you so much!
PS: kogir :)
PPS: I've always wanted to do some teardowns of old device UIs and see what our mobile device forefathers thought up. I have a couple of really cool archeological finds that I could share.
[1]:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treo_600 (gallery of 2-6,8-9 here: http://imgur.com/a/Gu70R) [2]:http://i.imgur.com/xVdpUST.jpg [3]:http://i.imgur.com/2Yy8fkM.jpg [4]:http://i.imgur.com/nZ7GwC1.jpg [5]:http://i.imgur.com/OJuZmh3.jpg [6]:http://i.imgur.com/z9mNkHt.jpg [7]:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid1 [8]:http://i.imgur.com/9VKcxlY.jpg [9]:http://i.imgur.com/5KeI9TI.jpg
