The PalmPilot doesn’t seem to get much retrocomputing love, but maybe it should. After all, it might not have been the very first handheld, but it was probably the most successful, and that ultimately led to the era of the smartphone. Whether you miss your old Palm applications, or never got to experience them the first time around, fear not. You can now relive them in all their glory in your browser thanks to the Internet Archive project.
There are over 500 applications and games all running in a browser-based emulator. Some of the programs don’t seem to work well, and some don’t make sense in the context of a virtual environment. But many work fine, and if you want the classic apps, just open up anything and press the home button.
I remember even taking meetings notes on my PalmPilot back in the day. These were the days before laptops. Around that time I went through a PalmPilot, two Psion 5 handhelds, and I think also a Compaq iPac, before ending off on two different Nokia Communicator phones (basically brick phones with a clamshell organiser design).
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The PalmPilot doesn’t seem to get much retrocomputing love, but maybe it should. After all, it might not have been the very first handheld, but it was probably the most successful, and that u…
