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Sergey Brin's awesome webpage.
- gr366 17y agoThis should really be viewed in Netscape 1.2 to see the gray background as it was originally intended.
- pgbovine 17y agothat style of webpage is fairly typical for a grad student or researcher to display their publications and other academic works. even today lots of academic webpages i peruse look like that :) it's what happens when you write pure HTML with no CSS
- almost 17y agoI really like them too, it's quite a refreshing break from the full-ness of the rest of the web. It recalls a time when the web was meant distributing information as opposed to another sales channel.
- jessriedel 17y agoExactly. I couldn't figure out what was so remarkable about this page until I read the comments here. This is how every professor/post-doc/grad-student's page looks like if they don't use a university template.
- prat 17y agoIt was a good idea to change the 1st G's color from green to blue.
- ojbyrne 17y agoAnimating a gif of his own photo was obviously a harbinger of the great things to come.
- pgbovine 17y agoha yeah back in 1998 that would've rocked everyone's 486 CPU
- wheels 17y agoMore like Pentium II: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_II http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_II The 486 came out 9 years earlier, in 1989.
- ig1 17y agoI was using a 486 in 1998 to browse the web with Opera, reading my usenet with Internet News (Forte Free Agent later on) and my mail with Pegasus Mail. 486s were ridiculous expensive when they came out in '89 - remember a Commodore Amiga was advanced at that time. Even when I got my 486dx-66 in '94 it was towards the top of the range for a consumer PC.
- thaumaturgy 17y agoMy high school had a drafting lab, and I and a bunch of other guys would sneak in there during the lunch hour and fire up illicit games of Descent. The rule was that the first one to successfully enter the lab would get to use the shiny 486 in there; everyone else had to use the 386s, which put them at a distinct tactical disadvantage. I graduated in 1997.
- zkylab 17y agoshit
- winter_blue 17y agoi dont see what's so awesome about it
- jfarmer 17y agohttp://infolab.stanford.edu/~sergey/sergey.gif http://infolab.stanford.edu/~sergey/sergey.gif
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- byrneseyeview 17y agohttp://infolab.stanford.edu/~sergey/resume.html http://infolab.stanford.edu/~sergey/resume.html He worked at Wolfram?
- lsb 17y agoAt the first Startup School, Wolfram actually made a joke that they were missing some deliverables from him.
- wallflower 17y ago> A new project I have just started is going to generate personalized movie ratings for users. The way it works is as follows. You rate the movies you have seen. Then the system finds other users with similar tastes to extrapolate how much the you will like some other movies. It is currently written entirely in Python. Netflix Challenge.
- drats 17y agoIndeed, think of what could have been, so much talent just wasted.
- zandorg 17y agoHalf the links seem to be broken.
- zmonteca 17y agoYes, but that's what google cache is for. Now this is wicked cool: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1075366 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1075366
- nhebb 17y agoIt's funny to see that his address was in the Gates building. I'm sure it's old news to Stanford alum, but I love the irony.
- rbanffy 17y agoSo, he worked on an "automated detection of copyright violations"... Interesting...
- dagobart 17y agoI guess since Google is (that) profitable there's little benefit in seeking an income by detection of copyright violations.
- philfreo 17y agoThere's a phone number on there. Someone should call and ask for Sergey.
- zeeone 17y agoHe looks like a capable guy and I would like to hire him.
- pgbovine 17y agonot as a web 3.0 designer, though ;)
- nandemo 17y agoDunno, he seems nothing special. I've interviewed lots of CS PHDs who couldn't code anything. He must be one of those. Look at all those overly theoretical-sounding papers. Oh, he can get loads of data from the web and make some fancy calculations. But can he make any money off that? Reminds me of Erik Naggum's take on lisp fanboys babbling about inverting large matrices... He's got no sense of design either. Well, at least he can make his own HTML page by hand.
- mahmud 17y agoHis dad is still a working mathematician and teacher :-) http://www-users.math.umd.edu/~mib/ http://www-users.math.umd.edu/~mib/
- krtl 17y agoGPS: Working on it. 1998 was around the time GPS was commercialized.
- petercooper 17y agoAlso awesome.. Sergey dressed in women's clothing: http://www.werty.net/blogphotos/sergey-drag.jpg http://www.werty.net/blogphotos/sergey-drag.jpg
- DannyDover 17y agoDon't forget about Larry! His page is at http://infolab.stanford.edu/~page/ http://infolab.stanford.edu/~page/ . The images are broken on the Stanford version, so I corrected the image sources and reposted it at http://bit.ly/6iO8Bk http://bit.ly/6iO8Bk . (Hopefully he forgives me...)
- mixmax 17y agoSo this is where they got the inspiration for the Google homepage.
- NathanKP 17y agoFrom the source code: <!--function Hi() { window.status='Please use proper postage.'; } // -->
- devadvocate 17y agonostalgic for any google fan.
- s3graham 17y ago"Currently I am at Google" Heh, you don't say?