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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...
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...
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... 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
Think there's a google cache of this?
The days of the digital watch are numbered.
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.
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
Thankfully they got rid of the! "google" not "google!"
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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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I saw slashdot at archive.org, and it reminded me of a time before it became "Googledot". I miss those days
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.
He who knows best knows how little he knows. - Thomas Jefferson
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.
Rosco: "If brains were gunpowder, Enos couldn't blow his nose."
It's interesting to see how everyone here is complaining how this is news, yet the site is /.'ed none-the-less. hmmmmmm...
Laziness, check. Impatience, check. Hubris, double check!
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!
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.
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.
;-)
:-)
They hired an artist. Seriously.
If there's one thing I've noticed as a programmer, it's that good programmers are rarely good artists. Sure, they know all the GIMP or Photoshop tricks, but they just don't have the sense of style. The result is that everything tends to come out utilitarian.
I wish I would have made *something* and cashed in.
You still can. The trick is that your idea can't be as stupid as the DotCom ideas. VCs realized that a *business plan* might be a good idea. That being said, I hate the funding part. I'd love to hook up with a guy who's good at the "getting the funding" side of things, while I focus on the "producing a product" side of things. Doing both alone is stressful, and often yeilds poor results. No wonder 90% of businesses fail.
Javascript + Nintendo DSi = DSiCade
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.
http://teasphere.wordpress.com - A little spot of tea
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.
The way back machine is always slow. Time travel takes a lot of CPU cycles you know.
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 !
No, it's not.
http://www.google.com/corporate/execs.html
/. 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.
You still can. The trick is that your idea can't be as stupid as the DotCom ideas. VCs realized that a *business plan* might be a good idea. That being said, I hate the funding part. I'd love to hook up with a guy who's good at the "getting the funding" side of things, while I focus on the "producing a product" side of things. Doing both alone is stressful, and often yeilds poor results. No wonder 90% of businesses fail. :-)
I have many great idea's. The only bottleneck is the bandwith, getting enough upstream. Even the best DSL only offers around 350-500k upstream. Anything other than DSL is too expensive.
I have so many ideas. I just need the bandwith.
Rosco: "If brains were gunpowder, Enos couldn't blow his nose."
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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Then why is the Wayback machine slashdotted?
I have so many ideas. I just need the bandwith.
Okkaaayyy... Why is bandwidth the problem? These guys can fix you up with everything you need at a low cost. Besides, if your ideas were sufficient to warrant VC attention, then you could get money from them for a T1.
Javascript + Nintendo DSi = DSiCade
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.
The ideas I have would not interest VC until I had the buisness up and running. There are just too many people out there begging for money. Plus, the sooner you ask for VC funding, the more of the company they want. If you have established a buisness making money, and then you as for VC funding, they have less risk and will demand less in return.
And I would not want to pay a company to host my content. I would have my own servers up and going. I would just need to be plugged in, and have sufficent bandwith.
I wish there was something in between a $70 DSL and a $1000+ t1 line. Too bad there is not a $200 DSL package that guarenteed 750k/second upstream, like splitting a t1 line.
Hey, is it possible to buy 2 DSL lines and double the bandwith?
Rosco: "If brains were gunpowder, Enos couldn't blow his nose."
Example #2
Example #3
Example #4
I could go on...
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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way back to the stoneage
Totally off topic, but then again, this really isn't a topic. I'm not sure how this story was accepted, but... moot point now. Excite failed so spectacularly. What was once a "$5 billion dollar" company, sold off the portal for $10 million in 2001. Some of the other assets Excite@Home bought during the heyday for billions, sold for roughly $10-$30 million. Gotta love those dot com days. Having worked for a company that was a wholly owned subsidiary of Excite@Home, I personally (And believe others would agree with me) blame the failure on the @Home merge. That brought in a lot of telco-type executives that had no idea about the media/content side of the business, and then the media/content executives that had no idea about the telco side of the business. As things started to slide, they brought in some AT&T people, who it seems like they purposely sabotaged the company, to pick up the @Home assets cheap, for their broadband unit. So really, just your generic case of management being clueless, reckless management of money (I mean, it *does* grow on trees afterall, right?), followed by what is percieved by many as sabotage from AT&T.
Obviously, Google doesn't have the past homepages on their uberservers. RIP
I wish there was something in between a $70 DSL and a $1000+ t1 line. Too bad there is not a $200 DSL package that guarenteed 750k/second upstream, like splitting a t1 line.
I've heard of full T1's at about $500/month, and fractional T1's for far less. Talk to your local providers and see who can give you the best deal. The setup will still cost you though.
Hey, is it possible to buy 2 DSL lines and double the bandwith?
Just go for a business class connection. Most phone companies have symetrical business DSL connections of 2MBits and up.
Javascript + Nintendo DSi = DSiCade
just slap a webserver on each DSL line and have them share a share a single database, or use a single server with two network interfaces or just use a single interface with an alias.
Then, direct traffic to both of these webservers (or network interfaces) simultaneously with round-robin DNS.
Just add the two A records for a single host.
www 60 IN A 208.201.239.36
www 60 IN A 208.201.239.37
Be sure to set the TTL low enough (about 60 seconds) to prevent any intervening caching DNS servers from hanging onto one sort order for too long, which will hopefully help keep the number of requests to each host more or less equal.
Good luck!
...all check to see if the wayback archive has last years pictures cached from their favorite pr0n sites...
I just entered my old email address and received 45 backdated emails.
>> I wish there was something in between a $70 DSL and a $1000+ t1 line. Too bad there is not a $200 DSL package that guarenteed 750k/second upstream, like splitting a t1 line.
You musn't have looked too hard. - There are plenty of business plans available in my jurisdiction with QOS agreements and they are much less than $1000.
Having said that, why would you not rent a server/buy hosting? It's cost effective to let someone else worry about the hardware and software while you worry about your business...
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Even OLD Google is news on Slashdot!!! (or should I say "Googledot")
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I'm guessing that they offered some sort of service or something that sort of made up for their basic HTML.
COMPUTER! Whatever happened to Blueberry Muffin?
Brilliant. You slashdotted the past.
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I used yahoo back then for my searches.
I still would be if it wasn't for the X10 popups. I converted to Google because I got really, really annoyed.
I'd switch to something else now if it wasn't for google groups. IMO that's what keeps us nerds using it. I'd switch in a heartbeat to a google clone that had groups, and found a way to get past the keyword-spammers.
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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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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....
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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
There are a couple of reasons why google is news and in a way, will be always. The first is the rise of a company from literally nothing to a multiBILLION dollar business in less than 10 years. That's incredible. Even more incredible is that not only have most of the people using Google's service never paid a dime, they have never been asked to. A good argument could be made that google has delivered more value to more people at less cost to them than any organization in history. That includes governments and religions.
Google is also news because of its continuing role in the evolution of a major paradigm shift in human society. The usable access to the knowledge base the internet represents is an equalizer even more powerful and universal than the printing press or the revolver of the old American west. Google has held the line against the commercial corruption that would seek to control our access to information. For the first time in history it is actually possible for the average citizen to be reasonably informed concerning all aspects of the world, his society and his government. Yep, that's right you bastards, we've got our eyes on you. Google's presence as both a top of the line search engine and their commitment to free and advertising transparent searching has prevented the establishment of a cutthroat, strictly commercial search engine environment. It's not too hard to imagine an internet where your choices were pay-for-search, by query or subscription, and free engines based on commercial models featuring top loading, competitor filtering, and even social and political censorship. The Google alternative has played a vital role in keeping the rest of the players relatively honest.
A lot of dreams were shattered when the dot com bubble collapsed. It's easy to look back and decide that the ideals of the early days of the internet were as flawed as the business plans of the hundreds of failed companies. Today's web represents a more traditional approach to business. Making a dollar has replaced making a difference. Yet Google stands as proof that the dream CAN work. By creating and maintaining a first rate product and adopting their "Ten things Google has found to be true" they have proven that truly you don't have to do evil to make money. If only for that, Google deserves to be considered one of the foundations of the internet. Sometimes it does us good to remember where we were, it gives us a good perspective on where we may be going.
billy - not only that...they made a SHIT LOAD of cash
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!
Way before the "we've moved" versiong oogle.stanford.edu/
http://web.archive.org/web/19980502040303/http://
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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