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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 hyperbovine »

8ig8 wrote: post #23
8ig8 wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

More succinctly: you were 20 years younger. That will always be a better time. :)

Re: Sergey Brin's Home Page

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Post by enscr »

pitchups wrote: post #24

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..:)

Unfortunately, there's no history of this page beyond 2006

http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://infolab.stanford.edu/~se...

Re: Sergey Brin's Home Page

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Post by hatchoo »

8ig8 wrote: post #23
8ig8 wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

And don't forget those "Best viewed in" IE and Netscape gifs...

Re: Sergey Brin's Home Page

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Post by faramarz »

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.

Try MillionShort.com for the broader web. It removes the top million sites (Wikipedia, YouTube etc). They've been covered on HN numerous times.

Re: Sergey Brin's Home Page

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Post by codecondo »

hyperbovine wrote: post #30
GuiA wrote: post #28

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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.

I don't care what he meant, I need to get prepared!
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