Happy Birthday - PocketGPSWorld.com is 10 Years Old Today!
Date: Wednesday, August 01 @ 01:09:23 UTC
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Happy Birthday PocketGPSWorld… 10 today! It was ten years ago on August 1st 2002 that the team at PocketGPSWorld.com took the wrappers off our embryonic site and opened up our muses to the world at large. Even now I remember the day well. We were waiting with great anticipation wondering how many visitors we would get, and if we had wasted our time putting all that effort into the site.
Well we were hit with a big surprise. On our first day we had over 2,500 visitors to the site exceeding our wildest dreams. At the time that was more than most business sites had in a whole year! We thought that this could not continue, but again we were very pleasantly surprised. It was not just sustainable it grew exponentially. At our peak we were getting 70,000 visitors a day viewing over 200,000 pages each day.
This article details the "Circle of Life" starting from our roots on PDAs, evolving to PNDs, and reverting to the current SmartPhone form of the original PDAs.
PocketGPSWorld started back in 2001 when 5 members of the Navman newsgroup got together to provide accurate information on how the emerging GPS systems worked. Dave Burrows, Mike Barrett, Darren Griffin, Duncan Hill and Kevin Tea were the founding members of the site and helped form it into the largest English language GPS resource in the World. The site was unveiled to the public on August 1st 2002 after we had gathered and written a number of articles on the then current GPS Products. Click here to see our original site in the way back archive.
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