mastodon.gamedev.place is one of the many independent Mastodon servers you can use to participate in the fediverse.
Mastodon server focused on game development and related topics.

Server stats:

5.1K
active users

#palmpilot

0 posts0 participants0 posts today

#PalmPilot
"You didn’t spend the money on a Palm Pilot to play games or scroll social media. You spent the extra money on a Palm PDA because you had a job to do. Palm Pilots were the original productivity monsters, keeping us on schedule and connected..."

I still have mine and I know it works.

I still use a Palm Pilot in 2025, and you should, too

"So many products offer to help us disconnect, but sometimes you need to look to the past."
androidpolice.com/i-still-use-

Wow, this is a 25-year-old Palm Pilot still being used in 2025

“They were the original distraction-free technology before we even needed such a thing. You didn’t spend the money on a Palm Pilot to play games or scroll social media. You spent the extra money on a Palm PDA because you had a job to do. Palm Pilots ...continues

See gadgeteer.co.za/wow-this-is-a-

GadgeteerZA · Wow, this is a 25-year-old Palm Pilot still being used in 2025“They were the original distraction-free technology before we even needed such a thing. You didn’t spend the money on a Palm Pilot to play games or scroll

Found a Palm Pilot IIIxe on Goodwill for $7.99 currently. Ends in about a day and a half. Released in early 2000, this was one of the last in the Palm III series, with 8MB RAM and a 160x160 screen. Back in the day you weren’t a true geek if you weren’t rocking one of these on a belt holster (probably next to your pager 🙂).

Check it out here: shopgoodwill.com/Item/21334435

www.shopgoodwill.comUsed Palm Pilot Iiixe 3xe Personal Handheld Device

Back in the late '90s I registered / paid for a few programs for the Apple Newton with Kagi, one of the early payment processors. I hadn't much thought about them since.

On IRC, I just overheard that there is some paid search engine called Kagi, at the same URL.

But, what happened to the Kagi I knew? A little digging revealed that it did not end well for the beleaguered company headed by Kee Nethery.

Kagi Shuts Down After Falling Prey to Fraud (article dated 2016)

tidbits.com/2016/08/04/kagi-sh

"The news was as sad as it was unexpected. Kagi, one of the earliest digital commerce companies and long a favorite of many Mac shareware developers, has shut down as of 31 July 2016, just shy of 22 years in business."

Sad story.

Web archive link of the old Kagi website: web.archive.org/web/1999020800 (from Feb 1999)

TidBITS · Kagi Shuts Down After Falling Prey to Fraud - TidBITSThe venerable digital commerce company Kagi, which has been providing payment processing and shopping cart services to Mac developers since 1994, has ceased operations after an unsuccessful attempt to work off debt incurred by supplier fraud.

The Internet Archive has hundreds of full usable Palmpilot apps that you can run in your browser

This really brings back memories, and I was even able to run the HanDBase app, which was a database app you could use to easily create a database with properly defined fields etc. The apps all run in proper Palmpilot or Palm OS emulators, so you do ...continues

See gadgeteer.co.za/the-internet-a

GadgeteerZA · The Internet Archive has hundreds of full usable Palmpilot apps that you can run in your browserThis really brings back memories, and I was even able to run the HanDBase app, which was a database app you could use to easily create a database with

Palm OS and the devices that ran it: Before smartphones, we had PDAs in our pockets, and Palm did them best

I remember my PalmPilot very well. I used its Graffiti handwriting recognition to take many memos and keep my life organised.

I’m pretty sure before the PalmPilot I only had fixed ROM organisers which had the standard notes, calendar, contact, et ...continues

See gadgeteer.co.za/palm-os-and-th

GadgeteerZA · Palm OS and the devices that ran it: Before smartphones, we had PDAs in our pockets, and Palm did them bestI remember my PalmPilot very well. I used its Graffiti handwriting recognition to take many memos and keep my life organised.