September 27, 2023, is big occasion in the tech world – Google's 25th birthday. The journey of this American multinational tech company had humble beginnings and the entire journey is nothing short of remarkable.
September 27, 2023, is big occasion in the tech world – Google's 25th birthday. The journey of this American multinational tech company had humble beginnings and the entire journey is nothing short of remarkable.
In the mid-'90s, two bright minds, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, crossed paths as doctoral students in Stanford University's computer science program.
Little did they know that their collaboration would change the digital landscape of the world forever. They started a research project initially called "BackRub," which eventually turned into the search engine we now know as Google.
Larry Page explored the mathematical intricacies of the World Wide Web's link structure. He laid the foundation for a revolutionary search algorithm that made Google the search giant we know today. By 1998, their project had evolved into Google, a name inspired by 'Googol'- a mathematical term that represents a very large number.
In August 1998, Google Inc. received its official birth certificate in the form of a $100,000 check from Andy Bechtolsheim, co-founder of Sun Microsystems. From their Stanford dorm room, Page and Brin moved to their first "office" – a rented garage in Menlo Park, California.
The office had both computers and a ping pong table, which turned into their home for the next few years as they worked to realize their vision of a sorted internet.