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looks like google.stanford.edu is still live, but not what it used to be either :/ http://web.archive.org/web/19981111183552/http://google.stanford.edu/ http:/

• rocky1138 13y ago
  Oh, man, dat java water effect: http://web.archive.org/web/19991010223952/http://www-db.stanford.edu/~sergey/ http://web.archive.org/web/19991010223952/http://www-db.stan...
  • Chetane 13y ago
    It's an animated gif (http://web.archive.org/web/19991010223952im_/http://www-db.stanford.edu/~sergey/sergey.gif http://web.archive.org/web/19991010223952im_/http://www-db.s...) :P
  • jebblue 13y ago
    Java Applets were light years ahead of anything else including Flash. The single only reason why Java Applets did not become the defacto interactive web client side technology is due to (in my opinion) Microsoft. And as another reader pointed out, it's an animated GIF.
    • rocky1138 13y ago
      From my perspective, the reason they didn't catch on was because they took forever to load and most did gimmicky things like the cheezy water effect. If they had used it to make a YouTube-alike back in the day, it might have caught on.
      • jebblue 13y ago
        I see your point but Youtube (good example BTW) wasn't even founded until February 14, 2005, this was long after the Java battles of the late 1990's.
  • n0nick 13y ago
    Still alive: http://infolab.stanford.edu/~sergey/ http://infolab.stanford.edu/~sergey/