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Sergey Brin's Home Page

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Re: Sergey Brin's Home Page

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Post by fidotron »

With time I'm beginning to think Sergey and Larry got incredibly lucky with respect to finding each other for the project that would eventually take off. Sergey always comes off as the enthused tech head, whereas Larry goes for big picture stuff, (a little like a variation on Woz and Jobs) but it seems like since that initial convergence they've been diverging more and more.

I love the way it says "Currently I am at Google".

Re: Sergey Brin's Home Page

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Post by 8ig8 »

8ig8 wrote: post #22
DavidAdams wrote: post #11

I'm bummed that his brother's Geocities website is no longer live.

I'm so nostalgic for Geocities and Tripod and the rest. It was a good time.

The mid-ninties: It was innocent and simple, but you felt so technologically advanced to be able to publish something online. It wasn't about making millions. No one was judging your code. You used Java Applets to make dynamic menus and that was the pinnacle achievement. No one turned on Javascript. You only worried about Netscape and eventually IE, but you really didn't worry that much about either. You didn't think about domain squatting because you weren't sure how to get a domain and it really wasn't worth the cost, whatever it was. If you did, you got your name from Network Solutions or that startup, Register.com. CGI was for professionals. Perl was for scientists. You kinda checked email every couple weeks. You may have even shared an email address. You were ahead when you had a separate phone line for dial up. You were a big shot when you got DSL (from Phoenix). Your DSL was bought out every six months. It was Phoenix, then Earthlink, then... You got AOL CDs in the mail weekly. You remember gmail invites.

Edit: And this was your editor: http://www.arachnoid.com/arachnophilia/index.php

Re: Sergey Brin's Home Page

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Post by pitchups »

Even more interesting is his old resume :

http://infolab.stanford.edu/~sergey/resume.html

Or rather what is hidden in a comment in the HTML - (view source to see it):

  Objective:
  A large office, good pay, and very little work.
  Frequent expense-account trips to exotic lands would be a plus.-->
He certainly accomplished much of that..plus a whole lot more..:)

Re: Sergey Brin's Home Page

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Post by GuiA »

fidotron wrote: post #21

With time I'm beginning to think Sergey and Larry got incredibly lucky with respect to finding each other for the project that would eventually take off. Sergey always comes off as the enthused tech head, whereas Larry goes for big picture stuff, (a little like a variation on Woz and Jobs) but it seems like since that initial convergence they've been diverging more and more. I love the way it says "Currently I am at…

On one hand, they undeniably got lucky finding each other.

On the other hand, they were both researchers in the same field, at one of the best CS universities of the world.

Poisson's law and all; luck favors those who come prepared :)

Re: Sergey Brin's Home Page

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Post by GuiA »

wj wrote: post #15

I think I went to google.stanford.edu for years after google.com existed. Those were the very end of the days where I could spend hours following links to the corners of the (much smaller) WWW. Now, if I let myself go down those holes, it happens on Wikipedia or Youtube.

tvtropes.com is a wonderful rabbit hole :)

My apologies in advance to your employer for the many lost hours of work this comment will cause :X

Re: Sergey Brin's Home Page

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Post by hyperbovine »

GuiA wrote: post #28
fidotron wrote: post #21

With time I'm beginning to think Sergey and Larry got incredibly lucky with respect to finding each other for the project that would eventually take off. Sergey always comes off as the enthused tech head, whereas Larry goes for big picture stuff, (a little like a variation on Woz and Jobs) but it seems like since that initial convergence they've been diverging more and more. I love the way it says "Currently I am at…

On one hand, they undeniably got lucky finding each other. On the other hand, they were both researchers in the same field, at one of the best CS universities of the world. Poisson's law and all; luck favors those who come prepared :)

I think you mean Pasteur.
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