I happened across a print out from 2/26/1998 (my birthday to be exact) of some messages on there. It brought back lots of memories that caused me to do a google search about it and I came across your blog! Now I am trying to find some of those old friends by their old usernames but haven’t had any luck thus far :(

I fail to see the superiority of this phone over a sidekick except for the fact that at least 12 year old kids aren’t running around with 8700’s. I encountered massive third party data problems and the lady @ t-mobil had me reset my phone including all 500 numbers I had stored on the phone (sim only holds 250).I tried to use the desktop manager to bypass the OTA downloads and somehow my beloved theme and game got erased (how did they even get there). I still can’t download AIM or any other messenger, even directly from tmobil or Blackberry.

The keylock is easily breached on accident, and this is not a good thing with an exposed keypad. You can be calling your girlfriend on speed dial in your pocket on accident, and unknowingly be badmouthing her at the same time.

Most all of the default settings are confusing. Too many to list. You have to click on messages and other things twice to open them. This sounds miniscule, but when you text thousands of times a month, it sucks.

Everything in general is way too complicated for the normal phone user. Even if a business man/woman could benifit from all these features, they wouldn’t likely dedicate the time and effort since its only a loseable phone. By the time they learned to use the phones complicated features, a new 2015 blackberry 9800L would Have already come out, rendering the 2007 8700g obsolete.lol. Anyway, I know every new phone seems foreign and backwards when we first learn to use it. The blackberry 8700 is just too complicated. I will play with it some more, but if I can’t get the IT clearance to download AIM, games, and themes, I’m ebayin this thing and getting a cruddy sidekick LX. It may not be the most mature phone around, but it has everything I need and is easy to use.

I am an amateur volunteer who inherited a large and very messy web site and am attempting to learn CSS to clean it up. Good information like yours not only aids me in my task, but may some day make me appear competent to do what I am doing.

Your link to wierd print designers also helps a lot.

I’ve yet to see another site like it. I found the technology was simpler and much more effective than Pandora, but it was always the community that brought me back.

I still keep in touch with a couple of friends from there, but the bulk of them have vanished into the World Wide Web. I wonder where they are…

I also have a unique way for that - with other browsers you won’t see any CSS hacks if you look into the code as I code my css to .css.php files that return content type of text/css and with php code check if the user has IE or some other browser. Not nearly all, but some of the pages I have made return a slightly different CSS-file for IE than for others - and in some cases I have had to use the same trick in the HTML-code too! Once for example I had a totally unexplainable problem with a *very* simple CSS-design that messed up tthe view with IE’s from versions 5.5 to 7 but not with any other browser. What could I have done? There was no way around it without possibly making a very complex CSS definations that could well mess up things with even more browsers - so I wrote a different code for IE.

Unfortunately IE is the most used browser and it can’t be ignored - and just as unfortunately it doesn’t seem to follow any reasonable standards (no other browser ever show my pages differently than I expected, I know my HTML & CSS and use only valid code). I wouldnt use any hacks in any other way, but for these reasons I’m sometimes just simply forced to code a piece of PHP to return different code for IE.