A Google Antique
Sarah Perez on September 20th, 2005
Ack! Did you see this? Google’s original logo? Bleh. We’ve come a long way, haven’t we? The website with the old logo is from the Web Archive. It’s way cool. It has links to pictures and details on the developers (you know - Larry and Sergey?) and pictures of the old hardware: 300 MHz Dual Pentium II Servers with 512MB of RAM, 9 9G drives between the two machines. That’s a lot of RAM for 1997, isn’t it? (Btw, I found this story via Digg.com, my new favorite tech news website.)
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Whoo, that’s u-g-l-y. And Google started out as something called “Backrub?” I had no idea. I kind of wish they’d kept that name, so we could all go around saying “we could Backrub that and find out.”
Anyone who puts 10 9GB SCSI drives in a homemade case of legos is either certifiably insane or about to take over the world.
mmmm…. digg rawks… glad you mentioned it!