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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. Um... by 0racle · · Score: 1, Informative

    Wow? Why is this on the front page?

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  2. Re:Back then... by marshmeli · · Score: 2, Informative

    I remember reading an article that the interface is so basic beccuase they didn't know hardly anything about HTML so they threw it together and they stuck with it. That article/interview was posted on here a while back I think.

  3. Mirrors by sucker_muts · · Score: 4, Informative

    Google's first websitehttp://mirrordot.org/stories/022b166f579c51 7f9aa710acad5f0953/index.html
    "We Moved"http://mirrordot.org/stories/0b37fdb012aef73 f90d560ad8dbc5d78/index.html

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  4. Re:While we're talking about random browsing... by Anonymous+Custard · · Score: 2, Informative

    the correct way to do an embedded link is to use the ascii code for the colon (%3A) and the forward slash (%2F)

    http://web.archive.org/web/20000301205131/http%3A% 2F%2Fw ww.slashdot.org%2F

    And you can use the <URL:http://example.com/> method to get rid of one of the extra spaces (in the www):

    http://web.archive.org/web/20000301205131/http%3A% 2F%2Fwww.slashdot.org%2F

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  5. Re:Larry and WHO? by nick8325 · · Score: 3, Informative

    No, it's not.

    http://www.google.com/corporate/execs.html

  6. Re:Back then... by Xeo+024 · · Score: 4, Informative
    Exactly.
    The prime reason the Google home page is so bare is due to the fact that the founders didn't know HTML and just wanted a quick interface.
    - Source

    Here is the /. article that links to that blog.

  7. Holiday Logos of the past... by DoubleDangerClub · · Score: 2, Informative

    Did anyone see the Google archive?

    http://www.google.com/holidaylogos99.html

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  8. Not quite correct by baadger · · Score: 5, Informative

    "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.