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In today's part of our return to the past, exceptionally we will move only in this century. We gradually recall the arrival of the PDA Palm500 in 2001, the introduction of the Internet Explorer 8 web browser in 2009 and the announcement of the return of the legendary addictive game Flappy Bird in 2014.

Coming Palm m500 (2001)

On March 19, 2001, Palm introduced its PDAs from the Palm m500 product line. The Palm m500 model was equipped with a monochrome display, the m505 variant already boasted a color screen. The Palm m500 was equipped with a 33 MHz Motorola Dragonball VZ processor, had 8 MB of RAM and ran the Palm OS 4.0 operating system. A lithium-polymer battery took care of the energy supply. The Palm m505 model was fitted with a 33MHz Motorola Dragonball VZ processor, offered 8MB of RAM, a Secure Digital Slot, and was also equipped with the Palm OS 4.0 operating system and a lithium-polymer battery. The displays of both variants had a resolution of 160 x 160 pixels.

Internet Explorer 8 (2009)

On March 19, 2009, Microsoft announced that its Windows Internet Explorer browser would be available worldwide for Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, and Windows 7. This gave developers a number of new options and opportunities for HTML tuning , CSS and JavaScript. An integrated part of Internet Explorer 8 was also a toolbar for developers called the Developer Toolbar, which greatly facilitated the work of developers.

Flappy Bird Returns (2014)

Developer Dong Nguyen, who created the almost cult game Flappy Bird, announced on March 19, 2014 that he was planning to bring it back. The app was removed in February due to excessive concerns about its potential addiction. In August 2014, the game Flappy Bird Family appeared on devices from Amazon, which compared to the original version contained a number of changes, including the possibility of multiplayer. The game Flappy Bird was so popular that it also received a number of clones and copies.

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