InsideGoogle: Web Stractions Takes Us On A Trip Down Google Memory Lane

Saturday, October 23, 2004

Web Stractions Takes Us On A Trip Down Google Memory Lane

Check out this post on Web Stractions, where Dodger uses the Internet Archive to look at various incarnations of Google, including the original Stanford prototype, the 1999 public launch, and the late 2000 version, which is basically what we have today.

- posted by Nathan Weinberg @ 10/23/2004 10:49:00 PM

Comments:

Well, there was backrub before Google.

Try here:

http://web.archive.org/web/19971224124155/http://backrub.stanford.edu/

and

http://web.archive.org/web/19971224124201/backrub.stanford.edu/backrub.html

These are early '97.

# posted by

Rama : 3:05 AM

Thanks for the links. Some very cool stuff. I especially liked the detailed statistics on what the Backrub engine was doing. Now I really want to see the Backrub logo, which was basically someone's hand placed on a scanner.

# posted by

Nathan Weinberg : 4:30 AM

Loaded with early Google pages.
http://www.resourceshelf.com/2002/09/look-back-as-google-celebrates.html

# posted by

Anonymous : 1:35 PM

Loaded with early Google pages.
http://www.resourceshelf.com/2002/09/look-back-as-google-celebrates.html

# posted by

Anonymous : 1:35 PM

Yeah, I think I linked to that (and another page there about the anniversary of AltaVista) about a week ago.

# posted by

Nathan Weinberg : 3:13 PM

Nathan,

here you go:

http://ucsu.colorado.edu/~vancejc/backrub.jpg
http://ulcer.ws/articles/google_inside.html

It USED to be on Google History page, if i remember correctly.
http://www.google.com/corporate/history.html

# posted by

Rama : 4:33 PM

Wow! That is quite possibly the worst logo ever!

# posted by

Nathan Weinberg : 7:41 PM

Wow! That is quite possibly the worst logo ever! I don't want that guy rubbing my back.

# posted by

Nathan Weinberg : 7:41 PM

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