Sergey Brin's Home Page

Post by [deleted] » Fri, Mar 21, 2014, 11:39 AM UTC

8ig8 wrote: post #23

8ig8 wrote: post #22

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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…

Post by untothebreach » Fri, Mar 21, 2014, 12:02 PM UTC

hatchoo wrote: post #36

8ig8 wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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...

Post by michaelochurch » Fri, Mar 21, 2014, 12:59 PM UTC

stuartd wrote: post #5

Dewie wrote: post #2

Damn researchers, never update their webpages and certainly not their photos.

I like the melting effect on the photo. Old school.

Post by _cbb1 » Fri, Mar 21, 2014, 1:33 PM UTC

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..:)

Post by giarc » Fri, Mar 21, 2014, 2:54 PM UTC

GuiA wrote: post #29

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