Google 2001

If your favorite search engine hasn't reminded you yet, Google turns 10 years old this month. In celebration, they have put their oldest available archives, from 2001, up for the public to search and reminisce. Try typing in September 11. Apparently, their archive is from before that fateful day; nothing of consequence pops up. It was a different world back then. This article in the Washington Post does an excellent job of walking you down memory lane, pointing out things long forgotten, and some things which are all too familiar.

I Googled this very blog and was disappointed not to find it. Then I realized I didn't start writing it until October of 2002.

So, I searched the archives of my own memory and dug up a few personal highlights of 2001. Here's what I came up with:

- Last year on JV soccer, Jobie teaches me how to run
- Paul graduates high school
- Summer trip to West Virginia. Cold showers for a week. Good times.
- Bud dies
- Meet Amy, one of my best friends, after history class
- September 11th
- Do tech for "The Foreigner" until soccer starts, my first play at UHS
- I make Varsity soccer & split my head open on a teammate's chin in the second week of practice. The scar still hurts sometimes when its cold or rainy.
- "Scenes from a Tuesday in September"
- IB kicks it up a notch
- Pre-Calculus kicks my butt (Mrs. Parrish, round one)
- Klongerbo's class, find out that I LOVE English, I learn how to write a good essay
- TOK with Mr. Boyte, wonder if dragons can fit in tea boxes
- Driver's License...woot (still accident free and only 1 ticket!)

What do you remember from 2001?