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Google's Past Homepage
kreativemind writes "I took a peek at WayBackMachine.com and found Google's first website. This was very interesting as I also discovered the founders (Larry & Sergey) eGroups board where they wrote about Google's startup site. Also found the "We Moved" site from Stanford."
I can't believe much less evil Google looked back then...
Neither is this news for nerds nor is it stuff that matters...
Wow? Why is this on the front page?
"I use a Mac because I'm just better than you are."
...the site itself was Beta!
:)
Good to see that they've not changed their processes...
Find out about the Lexus Rx400h Hybrid!
... and?
Interesting to see that they had a "Linux Search" on their front page even then. Cool!
Whatever happened to him? In the early days, he seemed to be a big part of the company and then he just sort of dropped off the face of the (Google) earth. Anyone know the story?
Damn thing is still in beta!
The latest Slashdot meme.
looks like someone just discovered the wayback machine
I just found my very first website and it's just as evil today as it was then.
-Sith Overlord
I usually dont complain about the news coverage here but what's the point of this? We all know how Google looked back in 1998, either because we used the site back then or because everyone and his grandmother know about archive.org and google is probably one of the first things you try when visiting that site.
;)
That eGroups link was pretty intersting though, at least I think so becuase it's down already.
Think there's a google cache of this?
The days of the digital watch are numbered.
"where can i find the old google sites?" "fgi"
As mentioned here1 4&tid=149
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/04/21/19532
Sneaky Google may be up to something.
You can have your god back when you are old enough to handle the responsibility.
Should it be in RC1 or RC2 stage? RC Cola anyone?
when they ban enctryption only criminals wi$21*J *#JF$%!@#$':
Gee, If I had known this was all you had to do to get credit for a posting on slashdot I'd have submitted this a year ago.
I wonder if we could still apply?
Interestingly enough, The WayBack Machine can can also be used to find when Slashdot last posted this story.
Does everything related to Google get on the frontpage now?
There is nothing more practical than a good abstract theory.
Because Slashdot doesn't have enough Google stories as it is.
about how a story was news, and mostly i disagreed with their assessment, however, in this case, were someone to complain that how using archive.org is news, i'd agree with asking the question.
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Be yourself no matter what they say
Does there need to be another reason, really?
Thankfully they got rid of the! "google" not "google!"
This is HUGE news!
Slashdot scoops the blog community with another huge bombshell news story!
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Take a look once their server comes up.
(on a side note, Slashcode interprets embedded http://links/ (as in : http://web.archive.org/web/20000301205131/http://w ww.slashdot.org/ incorrectly).
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http://fury.com/images/weblog/google_circa_1960.jp g
I saw slashdot at archive.org, and it reminded me of a time before it became "Googledot". I miss those days
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A communication error occurred: "" The Web Server may be down, too busy, or just doesn't care preventing it from responding to requests. You may wish to try again at a later time, or you can give up completely and go to msn search, it works better than google.
For assistance, contact your network support team, if you don't have a support team, hire one! They need jobs and they are fun to bring to tech conventions and have cool toys on their desks.
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archive.org is slow to begin with. Now it's going to die for sure.
I can't believe that it's just me, but this is really old news.
"I think everyone is an agnostic but just doesn't know" - Frazz
Google's first websitehttp://mirrordot.org/stories/022b166f579c51 7f9aa710acad5f0953/index.html 3 f90d560ad8dbc5d78/index.html
"We Moved"http://mirrordot.org/stories/0b37fdb012aef7
Dependency hell? =>
No, it's on the front page for the sole purpose of Slashdotting archive.org. It's not even funny, anymore, it's just disgusting how shitty Slashdot is about what they choose to post and how they choose to post it. I come here for posterity - who are the dumbasses who pay for this abuse?
Stop the presses! A Slashdot reader has discovered archive.org!
Seems like they've lost a little enthusiasm, and gained a little taste. Leave the !s to the Yahoos of the world.
You see? You see? Your stupid minds! Stupid! Stupid!
It's not "Sergey", it's Sergei...
If you think about it, it's pretty incredible that it was started in a couple guy's appartment, just like Microsoft was started by a bunch of weird looking college students (some dropouts) at home, everyone's seen the pictures. Both are now worldwide leaders.
I'd have mentioned Apple but I don't know how Apple started.
Typing google.stanford.edu to search, and how I couldn't convince anyone that it was better than Altavista.
Everyone thought "google" was a dumb name for the site, now it's a figure of speech
I just wish my search results were as good as they were in the wayback machine, now people prey on google's spidering and ranking so now I have to wade through the same detritus that I began using google to avoid.
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I find if funny that google-friends was hosted as a Yahoo! Group first... then "moved to Google" as seen when you click the "archive" http://groups.yahoo.com/group/google-friends/ on the "We've moved" link.
We slashdotted the internet archive and I can't find a mirror of a 7 year old page ...
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Yes,yes, it's the wayback-machine... But come on !
We slashdotted Google !
/. mods were fishing for a fresh story and hit the I'm Feeling Lucking button...this story is what it returned.
Sergey Brin in drag during his Stanford days!
Okay, now I've just signed away my opportunity to work for Google, ever.
Looks like the wayback machine itself has suffered a painful death. Archive.org for the most part is loading brilliantly.
Too many server side scripts me thinks, anyone know how how archived pages are stored? Are they just organised into a file system directory tree or do they use some sort of db intensive backend? (For access I mean, not for searching)
Did anyone see the Google archive?
http://www.google.com/holidaylogos99.html
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I typed Google into the old Google search box and it found the new Google! Scary...
Wow, between the unquoted attributes, the tables, and the capitalized tags, that drives the Crazy Pedantic Web Standards Designer part of me up a bloody wall...
"I took a peek at WayBackMachine.com and found Google's first website."
Technically this is incorrect, the first 'Google website' is archived under google.standford.edu. Although obviously he meant the first Google.com webpage, I thought i'd post it for the sake of enjoyment I get from being annoying.
Don't miss the pictures and stats of Google hardware, or Sergey's and Larry's Stanford pages either for those who haven't seen it all before.
...the first thing I looked up was the example solution to a high school coding exercise from the year before. Surprisingly enough, my younger brother is doing that same exercise right now... 3 years later!
There is nothing more practical than a good abstract theory.
Example #2
Example #3
Example #4
I could go on...
Back on topic, it is cool how it's kind of the same throughout the years.
I've got an idea.. Since Google wants to be the company to index all of the world's information, why dont't they start their own archive service? Perhaps archive.google.com? I'm sure they could manage all of it and make it all a bit speedier. J00' Kn0w?!
What is your penile percentile?
way back to the stoneage
Obviously, Google doesn't have the past homepages on their uberservers. RIP
...all check to see if the wayback archive has last years pictures cached from their favorite pr0n sites...
Isn't it ironic that slashdot is a basiton of people (righfully) hating patenting obvious combinations of ideas, yet the editors deem it interesting to post an article about how
1) one can use the Wayback Machine
2) to look at a popular website
I just entered my old email address and received 45 backdated emails.
This story is just a Slashdot prophecy of the real thing!
Its a diversion.
Even OLD Google is news on Slashdot!!! (or should I say "Googledot")
GET FREE APPLE STUFF!
Great. Now you've slashdotted Slashdot.
For the hell of it I put an email address to get google updates- and I was redirected to Yahoo Groups for Google Friends Group! kinda strange
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signature_bloc
Brilliant. You slashdotted the past.
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On your sig...
"Overrated" is a perfectly good moderation tool, and it can be M2'd.
If someone gets modded up to a 3 or higher, and I don't think that their comment adds to the discussion, or I think it actually takes away from the discussion, I am very likely to mod it "overrated".
My goal in moderation is to spend my mod points as efficiently as possible while creating a good discussion at a threshold of 3. I do not mod down ACs, as people can (and I do) opt to apply a modifier to their scores, and it's not like you can get lower than a -1.
I never mod down over matters of opinion (political, social, religious).
I often use "overrated" in replacement for "wrong" Nothing burns my butt more than factually incorrect posts getting modded up above 2 - and the insuing conversation taking the parent as gospel.
Wow, I definately submitted this to Slashdot about a year ago. Ah well...thus is life.
Anywho, a (long) while back I created an improved (aka: all bugs fixed) version of the archive, with a few complete versions of the site. Check it out here: backrub.tjtech.org. It even has an archive of the original BackRub page! Classic!
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Dude, imagine if the Matrix had a WayBack Machine.
http://web.archive.org/web/19981206064412/www.slas hdot.org/
we will look at what firefox's page looked like a few months ago
Everyday I walk by their original storage box that you can see on that site. It's not even made of real legos, they're cheap imitation brand plastic toys. They've been working with commodity parts since the very beginning it seems.
when I find myself you'll be the first to know.
I wish I could have commented earlier in the thread...
http://oldgoogle.com/
Check out wikipedia or elsewhere if you need further proof. Like your overall sig though....took me a while to actually get it (I thought I'd got it the first time I saw it, but I hadn't till recently)
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http://web.archive.org/web/20021030152640/www-db.s tanford.edu/~sergey/photos/drag96.jpg
Sergey in 96.
Seriously, you just made me realise something.
When you can't find something on Google, I mean REALLY CAN'T find it? After you've tried AGAIN 3-4 times with different words, will you really look elsewhere or just accept the fact that what you're looking for does not exist, because Google says so? I'm sure I'm not the only one doing the latter....
You are more than the sum of what you consume. Desire is not an occupation.
Stupid "Burning Man" certainly isn't a holiday. Thank god. :)
besides providing geeky news, /. also offers another great public service: the chance to whiningly bitch about ... ummm anything and/or everything... especialy old new
damn editors!
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a project this old that only makes it to /. now, is prone to be a failure!
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What about the first /. post about Google:
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http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=98/08/06/13452
It even has forfeited domians like millertime.com The unfortunate miller family had to fork that one over. sigh.. http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://millertime.com
No, that's not an interesting bet. The interesting bet is how many times it gets posted, and I'm putting the line at two dupes.
I mean I REALLY REALLY love google and this still struck me as idiotic beyond belief!
This is the whole Google gardware at the time: http://web.archive.org/web/19990428233905/google.s tanford.edu/mvc-043f.jpg
s tanford.edu/googlehardware.html
You know what, it looks pretty much like my today living room. Does this mean I'll be rich soon? Yay!
Other pics here: http://web.archive.org/web/19990428233905/google.
Way before the "we've moved" versiong oogle.stanford.edu/
http://web.archive.org/web/19980502040303/http://
-- Boycott Shell
Depends on how interested in the subject I am. If it's just on a whim, of no particular significance, and I have other things to get to, I'll probably stop after Google. But if it's a subject that I am seriously interested in or plan to delve deeper into, I will proceed to Yahoo, Altavista, etc and even specific sites that may cater to that subject. Right now Google may be king of the country, but it certainly isn't lord of the universe (yet :P).
It looks like not much has changed - thank God!
Must-not-watch TV!
Some things never change... google.com's front page still doesn't validate, or even contain a doctype! I gues they're in good company on /.
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No. It doesn't. I M2 serval times per day. Almost every day, for about two months. I have NEVER seen a overrated. I have confirmation fom other M2ers as well.
If I am incorrect, give me a screenshot, and I will retract my sig.
There are legitimate used for 'overrated', as you point out. However, I see it abused. I see things that were never modded before get modded down to -1 with the 'overrated' option.
See my journal for slashdot ID's by year. Mine created in 2005. http://slashdot.org/journal/289875/slashdot-ids-by-year
I see plenty of posts with no other mod get slapped with 'overrated'. There is many places the moderation system gets abused, and I understand why this would bother you if you couldn't M2 such situations, but I am quite sure I've meta-moderated 'overrated' before.
I've posted commets that have received only the 'overrated' mod, so it's happened to me, but simply because a tool is abused doesn't mean the tool should be removed.
I'll keep you in mind and work on getting a screenshot.
Congrats on missing the joke.