Man, did Google really just turn 10 years old?

Oh, the joys of having Google around for the past 10 years.  Where else can I type in “sansevieria trifasciata” and find exactly what I want?  There is only one place in the world where I can type in “sauerkraut pancakes” and get over 200,000 results, and that answer is Google.  Thank you Google for solving my most burning questions, 24/7.  No matter how random they were, you were always there to answer: What is the best bang for my buck in CPU terms?  How much is a digital piano, and what EXACTLY does an aortic dissection look like?

And now, you give back to us the index of 2001.  What does this mean, exactly?  It means that you can “search” what January of 2001 looked like in Google, for only a short time, while supplies last.  Don’t exceed labeled limit on packaging:

Their 10th Birthday page:  http://google.com/tenthbirthday/

2001 Search Page - http://google.com/search2001.html

Of course, I started thinking about what things were different in 2001 as compared to now.  It was only 7 years, ago, there isn’t that much stuff, right?  Well, here are just a few things that I decided to search after trying the usual, “George Bush”, “Titanic” and “apricots”.

…apricots is a given.

Facebook? What’s that? Also at that time no one knows about MySpace or Youtube. Some pretty interesting results when you look up “Youtube”.

OH WOW, LOOK a 3.34 megapixel camera for a MERE 799.99! Sign me up!

Ah, the days when were only in 5 trillion in debt. Now, it’s 10 trillion. Worried?

No explanation needed…

T-Mobile, what’s that? Sounds like a new type of Honda car if you ask me. Oh, THAT T-Mobile, ‘eh, it’ll never go anywhere, it’s just an IPO, afterall…

And my personal favorite. It’s just another day -

Other terms I considered posting were “price per gallon of milk” and “Wikipedia”.  Wikipedia barely made the cut - I really enjoyed the search results there.

So, now you can go forth and search!  Go, be one with Google!

(Blinks, looks around)  Wow, has it really almost been a month?  It seems just yesterday I was saying to myself “As punishment for taking so long to complete my website, I won’t blog until that website is FINISHED.”  Then, every week I would say “Alright, this week,” and then the next week I would say the same thing, and, OH LOOK, it’s September 20th and I haven’t blogged in a month.

So, it was about 11PM last night, when I finally completed my website.  I sat in disbelief for about an hour, and then I moved it over onto byjillian.com!  Wah-lah!  (Opens curtain, crickets chirping) Feel free to sing words of praise here. Alrighttt, I guess I’ll post a screenshot of it, for archival purposes:

Alrighttt, and I guess since the subpage is so different I’ll post it too:

And no, it doesn’t matter how wide your screen is, or how tall, it will look the same to everyone, using Firefox 2.0 and up, and IE (Internet Explorer) 7.0.   IE 6 does not display the footer properly, and, I can only please one person per day.

Creating the design for the website was probably the hardest part.  Once I got the design down, I spent about 2 weeks figuring out how to put the footer at the bottom of the website, and I would give up every five seconds, because it would work in Firefox and not in Internet Explorer.  Because, as we all know, Internet Explorer is the root of all evil.  Yes, ALL OF IT.

Well, except for pedophiles, and Ace of Base, not that the two are related. However, they are down on that “root of all evil” list as well.

I started realizing while looking through all of my folders, that I am really good at documenting the changes I made to my blog, with screenshots and saving all of my files in neat folders.  What I am not good at, is putting a DATE to any of this.  All I have on my blog folders is “Blog Version 1″, “Blog Version 2″, all the way up until this blog, which is “Version 4″.  Yeah, that’s nice, but when I’m trying to figure out a TIMELINE, it’s not so nice. So, I incorporated a very complex mathematical equation called ESTIMATION to put a time to each of the websites.

In a word: Fun.

Alright, so I guess I overdid it with the lame “My name is Jillian, and this is my website.” on every page, but, after working on it regularly for the past few weeks, I felt like the Well of Creativity was running dry.  And, maybe I went a little overboard with the whole thumbnail-images with a blown-up part of the image, that is, until the user clicks on it to view the actual image.  It was fun making them all though and choosing different spots of the larger image.

Oh, I just found the image I was looking for about web design:

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