Hacker News' “most unique support email of 2014”
(TL;DR: http://i.imgur.com/LuPHqiN.png) 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…
Hacker News' “most unique support email of 2014” launched on January 21, 2015 with 401 votes, #7 of 1,772 launches that month and more than 99% of that year's launches.
In plain words
This is a documentation of a personal restoration project where someone revived a decade-old Palm Treo 600 smartphone and discovered it could browse the internet and run basic JavaScript, but encountered unusual compatibility issues specifically with Hacker News. The project demonstrates the capabilities of early 2000s mobile technology and explores why certain websites failed to load on the restored device. It serves as a nostalgic technical retrospective for those interested in mobile computing history and legacy device functionality.
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In the maker’s words, at launch
(TL;DR: http://i.imgur.com/LuPHqiN.png) 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…
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