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Dewie
Damn researchers, never update their webpages and certainly not their photos.
stuartd
I like the melting effect on the photo. Old school.
trekky1700
Sometimes old school web design can be really charming and nostalgic.
hiphopyo
You got any nice examples? Currently doing some research on the matter.
bauer
Check out neocities. I think archive.org has a geocities archive too.
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nodesocket
Wonder if the listed personal phone number still works.
finnn
One way to find out...
domydeal
The guy that answered didn't seem to be sergey
rschmitty
Did/could Stanford claim any IP on Google?
DavidAdams
They've paid Stanford at least $337 Million in royalties for the original Google algorithm: https://news.stanford.edu/thedish/?p=19621
adventured
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).
DavidAdams
I'm bummed that his brother's Geocities website is no longer live.
kyle_t
No kidding. I was bummed to find most of the links broken.
8ig8
I'm so nostalgic for Geocities and Tripod and the rest. It was a good time.
8ig8
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

hyperbovine
More succinctly: you were 20 years younger. That will always be a better time. :)
hatchoo
And don't forget those "Best viewed in" IE and Netscape gifs...
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aluksidadi
Geocities, Tripod, Angelfire.. oooh the memories
8ig8
God forgive me, I forgot Angelfire. Thanks.
jnazario
"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
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.

GuiA
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
tvtropes.org

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

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

GuiA
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 :)

hyperbovine
I think you mean Pasteur.
codecondo
I don't care what he meant, I need to get prepared!
timr
Poisson's law is that luck favors those who choose to sit in the busiest bus station.
pitchups
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..:)
_cbb1
He definitely had his goals written in the fine print. Haha :P
henry120
As clever as a creative resume for ad agency.
ikarandeep
Anybody try to call his number? lol
Natsu
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
Interesting resume. I remembered my first webpage when I was learning HTML. The funny thing I noticed was "THE END" at the last.
aceperry
I see no mention of his hottie mistress. Disappointed.
EGreg
We describe a new architecture for data mining (sorry not yet available online).

Have they made it available since then? ;-)

squigs25
Haha, yeah I guess they found that architecture might be a bit too valuable to open source
spdub
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
Hopefully, Google will take the path of Napster!
imdsm
Created by Applixware HTML Authoring System, Release 4.3 on Fri Jan 16 02:08:09 1998
icco
Ha. Office 420.
hakkikonu
He dreamed about more than 200 billion dolar in his simple html comment unconsciously. Heavenly!
a3n
This is a troll comment to see what pending looks like.

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