Oh! to be Young Innocent & Idealistic - Again...

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The Beginning



This is Young Innocent Starstruck Google in 1998 /1999


http://web.archive.org/web/199902090...ehardware.html



This is the actual equiptment that Google used to run it's search engine in 1998/1999



http://web.archive.org/web/199902040...edu/about.html

http://web.archive.org/web/200402020...ey/resume.html

http://web.archive.org/web/199902101...ord.edu/~page/

http://www.dailycamera.com/bdc/natio...173595,00.html

http://www.google.com/corporate/history.html

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The Present

Yahoo! co-founder Jerry Yang, left, and Google co-founder Sergey Brin shake hands after talking with each other during the Allen & Co.'s annual media conference Saturday, July 10, 2004, in Sun Valley, Idaho

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The Future?

[jawn_tech]

Definitely one of the greatest success stories of our time, something we can all learn from.

Take a look at that picture. That could be any one of our living rooms / dorm rooms.

Now these guys are in billionaire status. How long has it been? Roughly 6 or 7 years?

When you get a dream or a great idea, run with it. The fact no one heard of your idea before only adds to your potential success. Instead of following where others have been, lead the way and make your own trail. (paraphrased famous quote)

(I've also read these guys weren't even taking computer classes at Stanford....their schedule was full of electives such as swimming, etc)

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http://home.businesswire.com/portal/...61&newsLang=en

The Men Who Continue to Organize the World's Information Will Receive Marconi Foundation Prize, the Highest Award in Engineering

Sergey Brin and Larry Page, who as Stanford graduate students successfully created the Google search engine, have been named the 2004 Fellows of the Marconi Foundation at Columbia University. In announcing their selection, John Jay Iselin, the Foundation's president, congratulated the two men for their invention that has fundamentally changed the way information is retrieved today.

The two award winners will join a select cadre of 32 of the world's most influential communications technology pioneers who since 1975 have been awarded the honor named for Guglielmo Marconi, 1909 recipient of the Nobel Prize for pioneering wireless transmissions.

Tim Berners-Lee, 2002 Marconi Fellowship recipient, said, "Google held a mirror up to us, reflecting the myriad little actions of linking as a set of concepts which society has discussed and sought."