About a year before, in mid-1997, word got around that there was this cool new search engine project that was giving great results. You could get to it only fr

About a year before, in mid-1997, word got around that there was this cool new search engine project that was giving great results. You could get to it only from the Berkeley and Stanford campuses at http://google.stanford.edu http://google.stanford.edu Berkeley and Stanford, despite their sports rivalry, actually work together a lot and at the time had direct connect networks between the two schools (which also made file sharing across dorms at both campuses a lot easier!), which was the only reason we could access it. We all quickly switched to using it because it gave far better results than the best alternative at the time, AltaVista.