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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. 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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    1. Re:Back then... by Slack3r78 · · Score: 5, Insightful

      I think the most interesting thing about this is how similar the original page is to today's Google. Guess it goes to show they really hit on the right thing pretty early on as far as the site's interface goes.

  3. 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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  4. slashdotted by uberjoe · · Score: 5, Funny

    Think there's a google cache of this?

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  5. 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?

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

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

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

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

  9. 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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  10. 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>
  11. 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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  12. 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.

  13. You're right by Neurotoxic666 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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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