Posted on 09/15/2022 8:18:50 AM PDT by libh8er
Do you remember the first time you heard about Google? If you’re younger than 35, it may feel like it’s always been a thing . . . but if you’re older, you might remember when it became THE way to search the Internet.
Today, Google.com is officially 25 years old. Google itself has picked various dates to celebrate its birthday over the years, but the domain was registered on September 15th of 1997. And it really started to take off in the year 2000.
Google began as a research project by Larry Page and Sergey Brin when they were both PhD students at Stanford University in 1996.
The name “Google” originated from a misspelling of “googol“, which refers to the SUPER LONG number: 1 followed by one-hundred zeros.
Google News was launched in 2002 . . . Gmail came in 2004 . . . Google Maps arrived in 2005 . . . Google Chrome was added in 2008 . . . and the social network Google+ launched in 2011, and then was shut down in April of 2019.
When your brand name becomes a verb, you have won the market.
The wonderful things we could research and dive deeply into in the early years of google search.
Now I mostly give up since I can’t seem to get past the shallow surface of things, and frequently can’t even figure out how to get google to recognize what I am searching for anyway.
I.T. Crowd.
That’s a damn funny show.
I remember Alta Vista.
Google is vile. Kiddie porn pushing commies.
Isn’t blaming Google, like blaming gun manufacturers for murders. It’s a tool.
Not even close.
Duly shivering
A pox on all their houses.
And Lycos.
Google is leftist. Leftism is of Satan.
Every corporation is leftist, period!
Alta Vista was great. My wife still uses Lycos email. Web Crawler was AOLs default. Yahoo was the big dog. Ask Jeeves was an interesting idea that wasn’t ready. mamma and dogpile searched them all. good times.
And Webcrawler
Google was great.
There had been WebCrawler, Yaoo, AllTheWeb. Before web Archie. But Google pulled up more links than any. I remember first time using.
It was great.
Now they cull the results and choose what to return and use what they’ve built as a totalitarian tool.
Technology can always be used for good or for bad.
“The wonderful things we could research and dive deeply into in the early years of google sear”
It was amazing.
Hundreds of pages returned and well indexed.
Black arm bans seem appropriate. When 90 of users really on a tool that is run by radical leftists and rat collaborators to get their info you get the dumpster fire we have now.
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