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Google's Early Hardware

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the back-in-the-day dept.

revjonnylove writes "Ever wonder what Google's early hardware looked like? Well, wonder no more. Thanks to Archive.org's Way Back Machine, we can all bask in the glory of Google's home made HDD cases, constructed partially of Lego, as well as other neat-o toys. Is that a PowerPC logo I see on one of their servers?"

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  1. Gmail by gid13 · · Score: 4, Funny

    1GB per person. Servers made of Lego. No April Fools.

    1. Re:Gmail by rokzy · · Score: 2, Funny

      >The amazing thing is, its plural and singular at the same time...

      amazing? got sheep?

    2. Re:Gmail by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

      Repeat after me: It's "it's," not "its." Its does not mean "it is."

  2. That's not lego by Moth7 · · Score: 3, Funny

    It's duplo you insensitive clod!

  3. Compensation by erbert · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm no psychologist but I'm pretty sure the simplicity of Google's site design could be an attempt to balance the chaos of their hardware and wiring setup

    1. Re:Compensation by panurge · · Score: 4, Funny

      No, it isn't, it's because the marketing drones who think up cluttered sites like MSN would have declined jobs at a company with such deeply uncool hardware.

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      Panurge has posted for the last time. Thanks for the positive moderations.
  4. I love Google by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I love Google and want to have like a million of its babies. I want to print out Google's front page and rub it against my naked body. Actually, I've done it once already, got some nasty paper cuts. But it was worth it.

    I LOVE GOOGLE

    1. Re:I love Google by hot_Karls_bad_cavern · · Score: 3, Funny

      "...print out Google's front page and rub it against my naked body."

      OI! Wash that before you give it back!

  5. Re:It give us hope by PacoTaco · · Score: 5, Funny
    us pee ons

    How often does this happen to you?

  6. I thought they used a bunch of pidgeons? by Mudcathi · · Score: 3, Funny

    Fowl hardware: pidgeons

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    "He who throws mud, loses ground." - proverb

  7. Re:It give us hope by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    They probably have an entire "Giving Shit Out" department.

  8. Re:Its amazing... by Ghost_MH · · Score: 5, Funny

    No, imagine a Beowulf cluster of pigeons.

  9. Imagine by iLEZ · · Score: 3, Funny

    Imagine a Beowulf cluster of.. nah..

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    You cant fight in here, its a war room!
  10. The Brits on the board will be with me when I say by IainMH · · Score: 4, Funny

    if only the Glastonbury ticket service was on such a powerful set up.

    Dual Pentium IIs?

    Luxury.

  11. google 1 GB Mail by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    wonder how many lego blocks would they need to put together a cabinet to fit all those new hard disks they must be buying.

  12. ROFL! by BReflection · · Score: 5, Funny

    Anyone else see this picture of Sergey in a speed-o? Here is another one of him IN DRAG. I kid you not!

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    python -c "x='python -c %sx=%s; print x%%(chr(34),repr(x),chr(34))%s'; print x%(chr(34),repr(x),chr(34))"
  13. And I wasted money on racks... by PSaltyDS · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...when the answer was FLOOR MOUNTED servers the whole time! Next thing you know, we'll find out you can skip the expensive UPS and plug things straight into the wall...nah, that's crazy!

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    Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. - Geek's corollary to Clarke's law
  14. Re:Its amazing... by RazorX90 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Now, to techs that seems hilarious...but you know for every 10 of us, there is a housewife telling all her friends Google operates on birdfeed.

  15. Re:It give us hope by rixstep · · Score: 2, Funny

    Who said that we need millions to implement great ideas ?

    The military.

  16. Re:PPC by rixstep · · Score: 2, Funny

    No, that's 'Powe rPC', a form of IPC (interprocess communication) invented by Franklin Douglas Powe.

    He also invented the 'r4' SMP cluster environment.

  17. Re:Where are these hardwares today? by chrisfez · · Score: 2, Funny

    Ironically enough, some of Google's first setup (possibly the one pictured) is sitting in a display case in the basement of the Gates Computer Science building at Stanford

  18. Re:Hey by wizard992 · · Score: 2, Funny

    I just wonder about the last time a girl was in that room...

    Nahhhhh..

  19. Sergey Brin's dad: poetry for son's 25th birthday by j.leidner · · Score: 2, Funny
    Here's part of a poem mentioning written by Sergey Brin's father Michael Brin (he's a mathematician at U Maryland) on the occasion of his son's 25th birthday:

    ...
    You are tough, you mine data,
    You surf first and think later,
    And your crawler fast as light
    Wanders madly in the night.
    ...

    Surf first, think later, huh? Not sure I can agree with that... ;-)