OK, Google’s App Engine launched back in April, 2008. Here’s what I wrote about same back in April.

I signed up for the service immediately, but just got my key (well, invite) yesterday. Eight months later.

I’m not sure what that means. But not a good thing, in my (addled) mind.

• Wow, we’re so fabulously successful that we’ve had to delay giving keys out until we can scale (uh, this is Google)
• We’re still testing (Valid, but, again, you’re Google…)
• Crap, we forgot about this service… (I doubt, but it feels like this).
• Yeah, we are giving out keys to people that matter (descending)… OK, I might even buy this.

And when will I get time to learn a new environment/language(currently Python only)? Who knows!

But it’ll be fun. I like new stuff with promise…

UPDATE: Interesting. I signed up tonight (12/17), and Google required a mobile number (to send the confirmation key to). So I got an SMS (after about one-billionth of a second [how does Google do that?] ), and all worked…but interesting.