The development of the Google algorithms was carried on on a variety of Computers, mainly provided by the NSF-DARPA-NASA-funded Digital Library project at Stanford. Click to see the equipment in its laboratory setting on the basement floor of Gates Information Sciences. Crawling the web to obtain its link structure required an enormous amount of storage in comparison with typical student projects at that time. We show here the original storage assembly, containing 10 4 Gigabyte disk drives, giving 40 Gbytes total.
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Ronnie,
That google storage thing looks a bit like some glass from a shower stall braced against some duplo blocks. You sure you aren't having us on? No, I'm just kidding. Thanks for the picture. I've been intrigued with google for some time now, and it's nice to see a bit of their early history.
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