Revisit Spontaneous Insight, a web-based people-search service listed for iPhone in March 2008, with original artwork and archived sources.

Spontaneous Insight appeared in iPhoneApplicationList on March 12, 2008 as a web app for people searches and background-check reports. This restored article revisits that early listing using our original coverage and the service’s archived website. We have not verified a current app or successor from the original operator.

An iPhone web app before the App Store

Our original March 2008 listing placed Spontaneous Insight in Tools & Utilities and explicitly labeled it a web app. Its destination was a website, not an App Store download. The distinction matters when identifying an old iPhone product: an entry in an app directory did not necessarily refer to a native application.

The timing helps explain that label. Apple dates the App Store’s launch to July 10, 2008 , several months after this listing appeared.…