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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 Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

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

  2. 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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  3. 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

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

    How often does this happen to you?

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

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

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

    No, imagine a Beowulf cluster of pigeons.

  7. 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.

  8. 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))"