Clive's Joule Thief on his site pre-dates it by quite a bit then.
It would't be the first time someone's knocked it off.
David...

Charles Craft wrote:

>Looks like April of 2004
>
> Domain Name: JOULETHIEF.COM
>Registrar: GO DADDY SOFTWARE, INC.
>Whois Server: whois.godaddy.com
>Referral URL: http://registrar.godaddy.com
>Name Server: NS1.HOST-ME.US
>Name Server: NS2.HOST-ME.US
>Status: REGISTRAR-LOCK
>Updated Date: 03-feb-2005
>Creation Date: 27-apr-2004
>Expiration Date: 27-apr-2006
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: David Duffy <david@audiovisualdevices.com.au>
>Sent: Feb 13, 2005 5:46 AM
>To: "Microcontroller discussion list - Public." <piclist@mit.edu>
>Subject: Re: [EE]: joulethief.com website
>
>Charles Craft wrote:
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>>http://www.emanator.demon.co.uk/bigclive/joule.htm
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>>I always figured the site above was the original Joule Thief circuit.
>>
>>A web search on "Joule Thief" now turns up the site below selling kits of a different circuit.
>>http://www.joulethief.com/
>>
>>The paypal link has an address of this site:
>>http://www.ludcon.com/
>>
>>Which is the same person that whois shows as contact for joulethief.com.
>>
>>Anyone know where the original title "Joule Thief" came from?
>> 
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>
>Do you know when the www.joulethief.com site went up?
>Clive's had the joule thief on his for a few years now.
>David...
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