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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. Linux Search by MynockGuano · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Interesting to see that they had a "Linux Search" on their front page even then. Cool!

  2. Craig Silverstein by kevin_conaway · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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?

  3. google!!! by my_haz · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Thankfully they got rid of the! "google" not "google!"

  4. While we're talking about random browsing... by GillBates0 · · Score: 5, Interesting
    I took a peek at WayBackMachine.com and found Slashdot's pages since 1997. Did this way way back....but if somebody can get a story about it, the least I can hope for is a +5 Interesting.

    1997
    1998
    1999
    2000

    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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  5. Re:How is this news? by John+Seminal · · Score: 2, Interesting
    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.

    I never saw the original Google, and it looks kinda funny. LOL. How did that turn into a multi million dollar company? Seriously. That original page looks worse than what a 5th grader can program in HTML.

    I remember back in the 90's when venture capatalists were giving money to any dot com and people. I wish I would have made *something* and cashed in. Looking at the original google, if that was good enough to get them funded, I could have been a millionaire.

    Back then I was using webcrawler or excite (which was my hompage before they started to suck). I wonder how the hell they both failed, when they were much better in the start.

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  6. Re:News?? by Jafafa+Hots · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Does everything related to Google get on the frontpage now?

    No, it doesn't. I discovered a strange fluke and possible flaw in Pagerank, submitted it here, and it was rejected.

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  7. I Still Remember by rAiNsT0rm · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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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  8. Yahoo/Google group irony by ThyPiGuy · · Score: 2, Interesting

    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.

  9. archive.org is slow by dustinbarbour · · Score: 3, Interesting

    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?!

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  10. Re:Um... by NanoGator · · Score: 3, Interesting

    "Wow? Why is this on the front page?"

    For the same reason that Mozilla used to get front page whenever a minor update was made to it. It involved offering reach-arounds, but I won't name names for fear of mod-retaliation.

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  11. Re:... and? by St.+Arbirix · · Score: 2, Interesting

    We're apparently recreating Slashdot in the form of a Google-fanclub.

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  12. Re:Less evil by MoogMan · · Score: 4, Interesting

    http://web.archive.org/web/19971221012817/http://s lashdot.org/

    Well, it renders better in firefox ;)

  13. Re:News?? by klossner · · Score: 2, Interesting

    And I reported on a 12-hour period when Google was evilly trampolining all links through themselves to monitor our clicks. But fifty April Fools posts were more important.

  14. Re:Less evil by KinkifyTheNation · · Score: 2, Interesting

    http://oldgoogle.com/

  15. Other travel in time machine by gbitten · · Score: 2, Interesting

    What about the first /. post about Google:

    http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=98/08/06/134520 2&tid=95

  16. Re:... and? by Michael+Hunt · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Congratulations.

    You just described kuro5hin.

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