Sergey Brin's Home Page

Ouch. Current market value on 1.8 million shares = $2,154,600,000. I think they managed that rather poorly (I understand it's common for investment funds / trusts / endowments - which perhaps the IP was held by - to liquidate soon after an IPO, but I'd think a university like Stanford could have more patience).

DavidAdams2• 12 years ago

I'm bummed that his brother's Geocities website is no longer live.

kyle_t• 12 years ago

No kidding. I was bummed to find most of the links broken.

ryannevius• 12 years ago

http://web.archive.org/web/20000823135932/http://www.geociti...

AND

http://web.archive.org/web/19990129053912/http://www.geociti...

chobo• 12 years ago

Oh god, Geocities e-federations with black background and neon fonts in tables. Nostalgia pangs are coming on heavy, I need to go lie down.

8ig83• 12 years ago

I'm so nostalgic for Geocities and Tripod and the rest. It was a good time.

8ig83• 12 years ago

The mid-ninties: It was innocent and simple, but you felt so technologically advanced to be able to publish something online. It wasn't about making millions. No one was judging your code. You used Java Applets to make dynamic menus and that was the pinnacle achievement. No one turned on Javascript. You only worried about Netscape and eventually IE, but you really didn't worry that much about either. You didn't think about domain squatting because you weren't sure how to get a domain and it really wasn't worth the cost, whatever it was. If you did, you got your name from Network Solutions or that startup, Register.com. CGI was for professionals. Perl was for scientists. You kinda checked email every couple weeks. You may have even shared an email address. You were ahead when you had a separate phone line for dial up. You were a big shot when you got DSL (from Phoenix). Your DSL was bought out every six months. It was Phoenix, then Earthlink, then... You got AOL CDs in the mail weekly. You remember gmail invites.

Edit: And this was your editor: http://www.arachnoid.com/arachnophilia/index.php

aluksidadi• 12 years ago

Geocities, Tripod, Angelfire.. oooh the memories

brandon272• 12 years ago

It was a simpler time! I miss it!

jnazario• 12 years ago

"Research on the Web seems to be fashionable these days and I guess I'm no exception. Recently I have been working on the Google search engine with Larry Page."

love it.

wj• 12 years ago

I think I went to google.stanford.edu for years after google.com existed.

Those were the very end of the days where I could spend hours following links to the corners of the (much smaller) WWW. Now, if I let myself go down those holes, it happens on Wikipedia or Youtube.

GuiA2• 12 years ago

tvtropes.com is a wonderful rabbit hole :)

My apologies in advance to your employer for the many lost hours of work this comment will cause :X

giarc• 12 years ago

tvtropes.org

I hope you don't waste time on tvtropes.com ;)

faramarz• 12 years ago

Try MillionShort.com for the broader web. It removes the top million sites (Wikipedia, YouTube etc). They've been covered on HN numerous times.

pmtarantino• 12 years ago

The first link is the course he taught with Larry Page http://infolab.stanford.edu/~sergey/349/

fidotron• 12 years ago

With time I'm beginning to think Sergey and Larry got incredibly lucky with respect to finding each other for the project that would eventually take off. Sergey always comes off as the enthused tech head, whereas Larry goes for big picture stuff, (a little like a variation on Woz and Jobs) but it seems like since that initial convergence they've been diverging more and more.

I love the way it says "Currently I am at Google".

GuiA2• 12 years ago

On one hand, they undeniably got lucky finding each other.

On the other hand, they were both researchers in the same field, at one of the best CS universities of the world.

Poisson's law and all; luck favors those who come prepared :)

hyperbovine2• 12 years ago

I think you mean Pasteur.

timr• 12 years ago

Poisson's law is that luck favors those who choose to sit in the busiest bus station.

pitchups• 12 years ago

Even more interesting is his old resume :

http://infolab.stanford.edu/~sergey/resume.html

Or rather what is hidden in a comment in the HTML - (view source to see it):

  <!--<H4>Objective:</H4>
  A large office, good pay, and very little work.
  Frequent expense-account trips to exotic lands would be a plus.-->

He certainly accomplished much of that..plus a whole lot more..:)

enscr• 12 years ago

Unfortunately, there's no history of this page beyond 2006

http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://infolab.stanford.edu/~se...

_cbb1• 12 years ago

He definitely had his goals written in the fine print. Haha :P

henry120• 12 years ago

As clever as a creative resume for ad agency.

ikarandeep• 12 years ago

Anybody try to call his number? lol

Natsu• 12 years ago

I was tempted but felt it'd be a bit crass and not unlikely to bother some other poor soul who has nothing to do with this.

tarun29061990• 12 years ago

Interesting resume. I remembered my first webpage when I was learning HTML. The funny thing I noticed was "THE END" at the last.

aceperry• 12 years ago

I see no mention of his hottie mistress. Disappointed.

EGreg• 12 years ago

We describe a new architecture for data mining (sorry not yet available online).

Have they made it available since then? ;-)

squigs25• 12 years ago

Haha, yeah I guess they found that architecture might be a bit too valuable to open source

spdub• 12 years ago

If we are talking nostalgia, I remember the first time I heard of google; it was around the first time I heard of napster. Fourteen years ago. How the landscapes have changed.

marincounty• 12 years ago

Hopefully, Google will take the path of Napster!

imdsm• 12 years ago

Created by Applixware HTML Authoring System, Release 4.3 on Fri Jan 16 02:08:09 1998

icco• 12 years ago

Ha. Office 420.

Evgeny• 12 years ago

Wait ... is the applet gone for good?

http://web.archive.org/web/20000816170648im_/http://www-db.s...

petercooper• 12 years ago

One of the classics from the photo directory there: http://infolab.stanford.edu/~sergey/photos/drag96.jpg

hakkikonu• 12 years ago

He dreamed about more than 200 billion dolar in his simple html comment unconsciously. Heavenly!

fivesquare• 12 years ago

that's an interesting find :)

a3n• 12 years ago

This is a troll comment to see what pending looks like.

Edit: OK, now I see what it looks like.

wgx• 12 years ago

Rejected logo idea: http://infolab.stanford.edu/~sergey/google.gif

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