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Google's Past Homepage

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the call-huey-lewis-and-go-back-in-time dept.

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."

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  1. Less evil by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I can't believe much less evil Google looked back then...

    1. Re:Less evil by eobanb · · Score: 5, Funny

      Check out what slashdot looked like back then!!

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    2. Re:Less evil by WhiteBandit · · Score: 2, Funny

      Obviously, this is related to GGG-Gmail?

    3. Re:Less evil by RzUpAnmsCwrds · · Score: 2, Funny

      Ironically, the lead article is about Internet Explorer being the most standards-compliant browser around.

      It's like bizarro-Slashdot.

  2. Back then... by datastalker · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...the site itself was Beta!

    Good to see that they've not changed their processes... :)

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  3. ... and? by Leroy+Brown · · Score: 4, Funny

    ... and?

  4. Google's first website by Bob+Cat+-+NYMPHS · · Score: 4, Funny

    Damn thing is still in beta!

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    The latest Slashdot meme.
  5. news? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    looks like someone just discovered the wayback machine

    1. Re:news? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      But if the Wayback Machine is slashdotted, does that mean the past has ceased to exist? Am I going to start fading from photographs?

      Oh, no! If Marge marries Artie, I'll never be born!

  6. Re:Um... by Reignking · · Score: 5, Funny

    a) it uses the word Google
    b) to annoy the hell out of us
    c) slow news day
    d) A & B

    If you chose D, you win!

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  7. slashdotted by uberjoe · · Score: 5, Funny

    Think there's a google cache of this?

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  8. Wow, getting featured on the front page is easy by vortigern00 · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

    1. Re:Wow, getting featured on the front page is easy by MyLongNickName · · Score: 5, Funny

      I'm going to submit Google's CURRENT webpage.

      Wanna take bets on whether it gets posted?

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  9. Interestingly enough... by Nomihn0 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Interestingly enough, The WayBack Machine can can also be used to find when Slashdot last posted this story.

    1. Re:Interestingly enough... by mopslik · · Score: 5, Funny

      The WayBack Machine can can also be used to find when Slashdot last posted this story.

      Tomorrow?

  10. Even earlier evidence of Google by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    http://fury.com/images/weblog/google_circa_1960.jp g

  11. I saw the past... by CypherXero · · Score: 2, Funny

    I saw slashdot at archive.org, and it reminded me of a time before it became "Googledot". I miss those days

  12. server too busy by digitaldc · · Score: 3, Funny

    Network Error (tcp_error)
    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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  13. I can't believe it's just me... by Myrmi · · Score: 1, Funny

    I can't believe that it's just me, but this is really old news.

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  14. Re:Um... by PxM · · Score: 2, Funny

    They hope to increase their pagerank by sucking up to Google?

  15. This is news? by nick8325 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Stop the presses! A Slashdot reader has discovered archive.org!

  16. Re:Google Newsletter by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
    I tried but it didn't work, so I sent them an e-mail:
    Dear Sir or Madam,

    I find your ideas intriguing and would like to subscribe to your newsletter. However, your script is not allowing me to do so, so I earnestly request that you manually add me to your mailing list and fix this irritating problem as soon as possible.

    Thank you,
    Anonymous Coward

    I suggest you do the same.
  17. Re:hhmm.... by hey · · Score: 2, Funny
    The syntax of your post clearly indicates are you programming in some very odd language...

    neither { news() nor matters() }

  18. Re:hhmm.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    The way back machine is always slow. Time travel takes a lot of CPU cycles you know.

  19. Wooyay! by 88NoSoup4U88 · · Score: 3, Funny
    We slashdotted Google !

    Yes,yes, it's the wayback-machine... But come on !

    We slashdotted Google !

    1. Re:Wooyay! by Rude+Turnip · · Score: 2, Funny

      "We slashdotted Google !"

      Just think, ten years ago that would have sounded like meaningless drivel.

      Ok, well maybe it still is.

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  20. Spoiler... by rev0102 · · Score: 5, Funny
    [spoiler]
    <HTML>
    <HEAD>
    <BASE HREF="http://www.google.com/">

    <TITLE>Google!</ TITLE>
    </HEAD>

    <BODY bgcolor=#FFFFFF background=alpha.jpg>

    <FORM method=GET action=/search>
    <CENTER>
    <IMG src=google.jpg width=351 height=113 alt=Google!>
    </CENTER>

    <CENTER>
    <table border=0 width=90%>

    <tr>
    <td bgcolor=#EEEEEE colspan=3>
    <CENTER>
    Search the web using Google! <br>
    <INPUT type=text name=q value="" size=40><BR>
    <INPUT type=submit value="Google Search">
    <INPUT type=submit name=sa value="I'm feeling lucky"><br>
    </CENTER>
    </FORM>
    <FORM method=GET action=http://www.findmail.com/cgi-bin/subscribe.p y>
    </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
    <td width=37% bgcolor=#7EE5DA><center>
    Special Searches<br>

    <A HREF="/stanford">Stanford Search</A><br>
    <A HREF="/linux">Linux Search</A><br>
    </center>
    </td>
    <td bgcolor=#70CCC2>
    <CENTER>
    <FONT size=-1>
    <A HREF="help.html">Help!</A> <br>
    <A HREF="about.html">About Google!</A> <br>
    <A HREF="company.html">Company Info</A> <br>

    <A HREF="stickers.html">Google! Logos</A> <br>
    </FONT>
    </CENTER>
    </td>
    <td align=right bgcolor=#62B3AA>
    <CENTER>
    <FONT size=-1>
    Get Google! <br> updates monthly: <br>
    <INPUT type=hidden name=listname value=google-friends>
    <INPUT type=text name=emailaddr value="your e-mail"> <br>
    <INPUT type=submit name=SubmitAction value="Subscribe">

    &nbsp;&nbsp
    <FONT SIZE=-1><A HREF="http://www.findmail.com/list/google-friends/ ">Archive</A></FONT>
    </FONT>
    </CENTER>
    </td>

    </table>
    </CENTER>

    <p>
    <CENTER><FONT SIZE=-1>Copyright &copy;1998 Google Inc.</FONT></CENTER>
    </FORM>

    </BODY>
    </HTML>
  21. Another important piece of Google history by Peter+Cooper · · Score: 3, Funny

    Sergey Brin in drag during his Stanford days!

    Okay, now I've just signed away my opportunity to work for Google, ever.

  22. Comment removed by account_deleted · · Score: 2, Funny

    Comment removed based on user account deletion

  23. Wow - Google was positively psychic back then by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    I typed Google into the old Google search box and it found the new Google! Scary...

  24. Re:Craig Silverstein by STrinity · · Score: 4, Funny

    He was beta-testing how the spiders handle robots.txt files and accidently made Google think he didn't exist. And now he doesn't.

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  25. The Googles, They Do Nothing! by WombatControl · · Score: 3, Funny

    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...

  26. And a million nerds... by erkdaap · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...all check to see if the wayback archive has last years pictures cached from their favorite pr0n sites...

  27. Re:Um... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    No, really, all these google stories on the frontpage should read

    Google, we really would appreciate you buying us. -- OSTG

  28. WOW by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    http://web.archive.org/web/20021030152640/www-db.s tanford.edu/~sergey/photos/drag96.jpg

    Sergey in 96.