Sergey Brin's Home Page(infolab.stanford.edu)

145 pointsby squigs25vor 12 Jahren60 comments

infolab.stanford.edu

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

nothing like a timeless ripple effect on your profile photo ;-)

25 comments

pitchupsvor 12 Jahren

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):

  <!--<H4>Objective:</H4>
  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..:)

enscrvor 12 Jahren

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

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

_cbb1vor 12 Jahren

He definitely had his goals written in the fine print. Haha :P

henry120vor 12 Jahren

As clever as a creative resume for ad agency.

petercoopervor 12 Jahren

One of the classics from the photo directory there: http://infolab.stanford.edu/~sergey/photos/drag96.jpg

fidotronvor 12 Jahren

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".

GuiAvor 12 Jahren

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 :)

timrvor 12 Jahren

Poisson's law is that luck favors those who choose to sit in the busiest bus station.

hyperbovinevor 12 Jahren

I think you mean Pasteur.

codecondovor 12 Jahren

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

jnazariovor 12 Jahren

"Research on the Web seems to be fashionable these days and I guess I'm no exception. Recently I have been working on the Google search engine with Larry Page."

love it.

DavidAdamsvor 12 Jahren

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

kyle_tvor 12 Jahren

No kidding. I was bummed to find most of the links broken.

ryanneviusvor 12 Jahren

http://web.archive.org/web/20000823135932/http://www.geociti...

AND

http://web.archive.org/web/19990129053912/http://www.geociti...

chobovor 12 Jahren

Oh god, Geocities e-federations with black background and neon fonts in tables. Nostalgia pangs are coming on heavy, I need to go lie down.

8ig8vor 12 Jahren

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

8ig8vor 12 Jahren

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

hyperbovinevor 12 Jahren

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

dredmorbiusvor 12 Jahren

Except for The Doctor.

[deleted]vor 12 Jahren

hatchoovor 12 Jahren

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

untothebreachvor 12 Jahren

The 'Under Construction' gifs were even better

aluksidadivor 12 Jahren

Geocities, Tripod, Angelfire.. oooh the memories

readvor 12 Jahren

There is Neocities: https://neocities.org/ But the simplicity in the design is gone, possibly forever.

8ig8vor 12 Jahren

God forgive me, I forgot Angelfire. Thanks.

brandon272vor 12 Jahren

It was a simpler time! I miss it!

sockgrantvor 12 Jahren

Cached URL: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:aYC2MlU...

bobblesvor 12 Jahren

Thanks

wjvor 12 Jahren

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.

GuiAvor 12 Jahren

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

giarcvor 12 Jahren

tvtropes.org

I hope you don't waste time on tvtropes.com ;)

faramarzvor 12 Jahren

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

spdubvor 12 Jahren

If we are talking nostalgia, I remember the first time I heard of google; it was around the first time I heard of napster. Fourteen years ago. How the landscapes have changed.

marincountyvor 12 Jahren

Hopefully, Google will take the path of Napster!

EGregvor 12 Jahren

We describe a new architecture for data mining (sorry not yet available online).

Have they made it available since then? ;-)

squigs25vor 12 Jahren

Haha, yeah I guess they found that architecture might be a bit too valuable to open source

Evgenyvor 12 Jahren

Wait ... is the applet gone for good?

http://web.archive.org/web/20000816170648im_/http://www-db.s...

pmtarantinovor 12 Jahren

The first link is the course he taught with Larry Page http://infolab.stanford.edu/~sergey/349/

wgxvor 12 Jahren

Rejected logo idea: http://infolab.stanford.edu/~sergey/google.gif

[deleted]vor 12 Jahren

nodesocketvor 12 Jahren

Wonder if the listed personal phone number still works.

finnnvor 12 Jahren

One way to find out...

domydealvor 12 Jahren

The guy that answered didn't seem to be sergey

tarun29061990vor 12 Jahren

Interesting resume. I remembered my first webpage when I was learning HTML. The funny thing I noticed was "THE END" at the last.

hakkikonuvor 12 Jahren

He dreamed about more than 200 billion dolar in his simple html comment unconsciously. Heavenly!

imdsmvor 12 Jahren

Created by Applixware HTML Authoring System, Release 4.3 on Fri Jan 16 02:08:09 1998

a3nvor 12 Jahren

This is a troll comment to see what pending looks like.

Edit: OK, now I see what it looks like.

aceperryvor 12 Jahren

I see no mention of his hottie mistress. Disappointed.

rschmittyvor 12 Jahren

Did/could Stanford claim any IP on Google?

DavidAdamsvor 12 Jahren

They've paid Stanford at least $337 Million in royalties for the original Google algorithm: https://news.stanford.edu/thedish/?p=19621

adventuredvor 12 Jahren

Ouch. Current market value on 1.8 million shares = $2,154,600,000. I think they managed that rather poorly (I understand it's common for investment funds / trusts / endowments - which perhaps the IP was held by - to liquidate soon after an IPO, but I'd think a university like Stanford could have more patience).

iccovor 12 Jahren

Ha. Office 420.

[deleted]vor 12 Jahren

fivesquarevor 12 Jahren

that's an interesting find :)

ikarandeepvor 12 Jahren

Anybody try to call his number? lol

Natsuvor 12 Jahren

I was tempted but felt it'd be a bit crass and not unlikely to bother some other poor soul who has nothing to do with this.

Dewievor 12 Jahren

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

stuartdvor 12 Jahren

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

trekky1700vor 12 Jahren

Sometimes old school web design can be really charming and nostalgic.

hiphopyovor 12 Jahren

You got any nice examples? Currently doing some research on the matter.

bauervor 12 Jahren

Check out neocities. I think archive.org has a geocities archive too.

RankingMembervor 12 Jahren

Sadly Geocities is no more.

michaelochurchvor 12 Jahren

Needs more <blink> tags.