Tag: Larry Page

• Google “ Corkboard ” Server, 1999 | National Museum of American History

  Currently on display in 1 WestIn 1998 Stanford University graduate students Larry Page and Sergey Brin launched Google, a web-search company, in a garage in Menlo Park, California.To maximize searching at the lowest cost, Page and Brin built thirty racks of servers, including this one, from cheap parts. Each server row used corkboard insulating pads—hence…

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