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- dielawn, on 10/12/2007, -2/+64ive seen about 10 of these "when google first started up" pics, and all of them have different servers...WTF?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+39How many times are we going to repost this?
- tonyhartfield, on 10/12/2007, -5/+32or maybe everyone used all their comments up one this the last 40 times it was on the front page
- Notyavgkat, on 10/12/2007, -3/+21pic with the lego built server is now on display @ Stanford Univ
- RyeBrye, on 10/12/2007, -3/+19Yes. Over 1000 times.
- fuelvolts, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15@aforsberg
your comment just made me feel really old, and I'm still in college
@r2pro
what are you smoking and more importantly, where can I get some? - fuzzmeister, on 10/12/2007, -5/+19Wow, this made the front page with 1 comment. Guess its just universally accepted as cool (in a geeky way), and needs no words.
- Brak710101, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14Ironic.
- Augie1969, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13Anyone have a pic of what it looks like today?
- XTCinOvaltine, on 10/12/2007, -7/+16Wasn't this submitted before?
http://digg.com/hardware/Picture_of_Google_s_first_server_Awesome - RyeBrye, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7How many times can this make it to the front page. I"d say "Duplicate Story" - but that would be innaccurate. It's more like "50-plicate Story"
- Tenlow, on 10/12/2007, -5/+10Maybe not everyone comments when they digg an article.
It would kind of suck if articles only made the front page with a certain amount of comments. - robsonde, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5lets start with the fact tha google started before 1998....
lets add the fact the this is a dupe.
lets add the fact the its just some random photos of a crusty server room, probly not even google.
result = lame - TannerLD, on 10/12/2007, -5/+9Not every digg needs a comment.
- mikev, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5If you look really closely you can see the mothertube
- MasterChi, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5So um, how can i go about getting Intel and IBM to donate servers to me ?
- MikeCerm, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Imagine a white room full of 6-foot high racks, 25 servers per rack, 25 racks in the room. They probably have 25 rooms. Unfortunately, I doubt that their current server racks are built from LEGO. On the other hand, much of the Googleplex looks like it is.
http://www.time.com/time/photoessays/2006/inside_google/index.html - KevinJB, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Actually, the LESS Diggs a story has upon reaching the frontpage, the more likely it is that the server will go down.
Why? Less Diggs indicate the story has been on the frontpage for less time, thereby being a newer story and further towards the top of the page, and receiving more traffic in the same period of time than stories further down the page, all leading to more strain on the server. - nintendomaniac, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3No offense, but I didn't even know PCs could have up to 512 MB of RAM back then :P
(and here I am with only 256MB - toppgun, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5not ironic, convenient
- kgool, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2It was a server, not a PC.
- Suplyndmnd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Create a revolutionary search engine that changes how users are going to use the web for decades to come... i'd start soon.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2They weren't public then, doofus.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1That looked just like the left side of my bedroom!
- Sakkath, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Buried for dupe.
- po43292, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1you know what I mean, calm down
- flyguyjm, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3dugg mirror missed it, but here's google's cache - http://72.14.209.104/search?hs=sUq&hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1&q=cache%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fbackrub.tjtech.org%2FMay1998%2Fhardware.htm&btnG=Search
- wholelotamike, on 06/01/2009, -1/+2Have seen this numerous times before, still always worth looking at.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1And to think, AltaVista had started to own the search market, with a growing reputation and a simple Google-like interface. Then they decided to become... a private-access site.
GOOD MOVE, DEC! - sHARD>>, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2@rudeturk
I put this site up. The site just switched to a new dedicated server a few days ago, and apparently no one had gotten around to optimizing Apache. It should load fine again. - television, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I wonder if they based their colour scheme on Lego? :p
ggidster you just beat me.. by 12 hours
*shakes head* - ggidster, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Did the Lego influence the colours of the Google Logo? It looks like it to me.... never really thought about that before.
- matt.rubin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1nah i remember seeing on the screen savers (yeah tech tv!) pics of the lego one and thats about it then they interviewed the google guys so i am sure its real
- noahhoward, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Anyone remember seeing this on Channel 1 news in school in the US? I remember them talking about a couple of kids who had started a home busienss and had a room full of computers on table... I'm fairly certain it was a young google.
- rouslan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Servers, especially web, are about stability, not hardware. It is better to have a stable 500Mhz system than an overclocked 2Ghz.
- webspot, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I think you mean room*s*
- ThreeDee912, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Did I see "PowerPC" on one of those servers? IBM made Mac servers back then?
- BOFH2, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I would love to see their current server room.
- po43292, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Wish I had GOOG stocks back then... :(
- superal1394, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1heh, I have even humbler beginnings. My server is a 1.7 ghz Pentium M and a 120 gig hard drive on my cable line.
ok, so maybe the, uh, 'server' is overkill for a cable line, but I think it on its own has the power of all those servers combined - h0dg3s, on 10/12/2007, -5/+5This is old as balls. Please die.
- kinkyboots02, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I have seen this many times. They all seem different though, I was told this is the real one: http://digg.com/hardware/Googles_First_EVER_Server
But does anyone really know which ones are real? - aforsberg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0@fuelvotes
sorry - tmcdigg, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1sounds about right, most people were on dialup which was first developing UNLIMITED plans, right?
- allourbase, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0@kinkyboots02:
This post is about what their servers looked like in 98, and as someone else has commented google i believe began previous to 98, making that image possible as the first google server ever. - antdude, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Another mirror: http://web.archive.org/web/20060521062032/http://backrub.tjtech.org/May1998/hardware.htm
- rabidjade, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Kind of looks like my computer room, minus the Sun hardware.
- trepetsk, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1This website is hosted in Nuremberg, Germany. From the website, the server is an "AMD Athlon 64 3700+ with 1GB RAM and dual 160GB hard disks. Datacenter uplink clocks in at about 28Gbps. Ping times run at a respectable 100ms."
It's not used to being dugg - cwshea, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2That looks like my bedroom...
Disclaimer: I'm messing around with 3-4 craptastic computers and putting Ubuntu on them. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1WTF is up with replies not going in the right place on here?
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