DreamDives kept a running news page for the SharkPoint range — release notes, update announcements and occasional company news. This is what survives of it: the headline record, reconstructed from the site's own archive. The individual item pages are no longer retrievable.
2008 – 2009: the final releases
- October 2009 — a special end-of-summer offer announcement. This is the last dated item on the site.
- September 2009 — a new Windows 7 installation package was made available, updating SharkPoint for Windows for the then-current release of Windows.
- December 2008 — SharkPoint for PocketPC / Windows Mobile version 2.2 update released.
2003 – 2007: the main run
Through this period DreamDives published dated news items covering the version 2 generation, the DualPack pairings and the DCU import modules. Items are recorded in the site's own URL structure for November 2003, May 2004, September 2006, and April and May 2007. Their content did not survive.
2002 – 2003: the first years
The earliest generation of the site kept its news in a separate archive with roughly twenty items dated between August 2002 and April 2003 — the period covering SharkPoint version 1 and the original Palm and PocketPC releases. Only the dates remain.
What the timeline shows
Read as a whole, the sequence tells a fairly ordinary story about a small software company and a platform shift.
The busiest years are 2002 to 2007, which is exactly the window in which Palm OS and PocketPC handhelds were the natural place to put a portable logbook. The version 2 generation, with its shared interface across desktop and handheld, full synchronisation and the VDAF planning format, is the high-water mark of the range.
After 2008 the pace drops off sharply, and the last substantial technical item is a compatibility update rather than a new capability. Within a few years both handheld platforms SharkPoint depended on had been discontinued by their own vendors, and the kind of device divers carried had changed completely. The range did not make that transition.
For what the software actually did, see the product range; for the company, about DreamDives.