Google's First Server Rack Made of Legos
Chapter 1

The tragedy on the horse farm

Chapter 2

The father of Silicon Valley

Chapter 3

Seeding the global internet

Chapter 4

Science, wealth, and the modern dilemma

Ch 3 · Seeding the global internet
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steve The history of Yahoo and the early World Wide Web directory

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From Farm to Web
BETA

steve Trace Stanford's evolution to discover how a family farm became the engine of Silicon Valley.

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They shaped the TCP/IP at Stanford, to bind the whole world's networks into one.

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The Stanford network and Cisco

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Fun Fact

The Google Lego server: Google's very first server rack was built out of colorful Lego bricks to hold ten hard drives.

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The birth of Google in a dorm

steve Two Stanford PhD students developed a revolutionary search engine in their campus dorm rooms.

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Glossary
internet (noun)
An electronic communications network that connects computer networks and organizational facilities around the world. In 1973, Stanford researcher Vint Cerf co-designed the foundational TCP/IP protocols that made this network possible.

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Quiz

Where did Larry Page and Sergey Brin physically house the first Google search engine servers?

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Gossip

Which tech invention changed life most?

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Quiz

What was the original name of the Google search engine developed at Stanford?

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Quiz

On October 29, 1969, Stanford Research Institute received the second-ever message on which network?

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Quiz

The acronym 'SUN' in Sun Microsystems, a massive Stanford spin-off, originally stood for what?

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Quiz

Which Stanford alumnus co-founded Instagram in 2010, later selling it to Facebook?

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Quiz

Which husband-and-wife duo founded Cisco Systems while working as Stanford computer staff?

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Quiz

What did Jerry Yang and David Filo originally name their web directory before renaming it Yahoo!?

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Quiz

Which Stanford professor became Google's first investor by writing a $100,000 check?

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