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Life & fun · August 8, 2014

AvantGo

Get webpage updates synced to your PalmPilot or PocketPC

AvantGo launched on August 8, 2014 with 11 votes. The site was still online in September 2026, 12 years on.

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AvantGo was a technology company focused on bringing a full W3C -compliant browser experience to intermittently-connected mobile devices such as the personal digital assistants (PDAs) and extremely early smartphones of that time period. Their browser could work with a live internet connection , but their core technology was the ability to sync web pages (including forms and JavaScript ) to the device, allow the user to interact with them even while off-line , and then forward any results (primarily HTTP POST messages) the next time the device synced. [ 1 ] Despite this, the company is primarily remembered for their proof-of-technology demo service, which allowed users to set up a free…from en.wikipedia.org

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