Google's tenth birthday

Doctor Glyndwr · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 32619

To celebrate their 10th birthday, Google have put up a search engine with their oldest backup index set - 2001, and they've included crosslinks to the Internet Archive for old content that is no longer on the live web.

For starters, it doesn't know who Sarah Palin is, so that's already ahead of the modern one in my opinion. WoS didn't exist either. Err, I've run out of cool searches. There must be more.

Bluecup · **Joined:** 31st Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 925

http://www.google.com/search2001/search ... tnG=Search

Is the third one down you Mr Gaywood?

Doctor Glyndwr · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 32619

Bluecup wrote:

http://www.google.com/search2001/search?q=richard+gaywood&hl=en&btnG=Search

Is the third one down you Mr Gaywood?

Yes. So are the first two, but that is all. I'm 6/10 on the current Google search for me though.

Searches for "flickr" and "facebook" are interesting. The former is just a typo, the latter still an internal Harvard-only website.

ElephantBanjoGnome · **Joined:** 22nd Dec, 2010 **Posts:** 8175

Rock the fuck on, baby. It has a listing for my Green Day page, hahahaha, the first page I made on the t'internet.

A quick search for my name reveals I was utterly unknown by Google back then. Sniff.

Doctor Glyndwr · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 32619

CG's Greenday page wrote:

I'm back with a vengence

Already obsessed with vengeance, even so long ago?

Edit -- and it has a web counter GIF at the bottom too. Man, I haven't seen a real one of those in years. I think they all retired to a home with all the email me buttons (with spinning chrome 'e's) and animated WORK IN PROGRESS signs with a picture of a man digging up a road.

Shin · **Posted:** Wed Oct 01, 2008 10:10

LOLCats didn't exist??

Doctor Glyndwr · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 32619

Shin wrote:

LOLCats didn't exist??

LOLcats barely existed last year, let alone in 2001. [Citation supplied].

Shin · **Posted:** Wed Oct 01, 2008 10:13

I thought it had been going longer. The years fly by when you leave school ?:|

ElephantBanjoGnome · **Joined:** 22nd Dec, 2010 **Posts:** 8175

richardgaywood wrote:

CG's Greenday page wrote:

I'm back with a vengence

Already obsessed with vengeance, even so long ago?

Edit -- and it has a web counter GIF at the bottom too. Man, I haven't seen a real one of those in years. I think they all retired to a home with all the email me buttons (with spinning chrome 'e's) and animated WORK IN PROGRESS signs with a picture of a man digging up a road.

I HAD ALL OF THOSE THINGS

myp · **Posted:** Wed Oct 01, 2008 10:17

I wish LOLCATS still didn't exist. I wonder by using the magical 2001 search I can eradicate it from history using some kind of wormhole. [SUB PLEASE INSERT SCIENCE]

Joans · **Joined:** 31st Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 8648

richardgaywood wrote:

Bluecup wrote:

http://www.google.com/search2001/search?q=richard+gaywood&hl=en&btnG=Search

Is the third one down you Mr Gaywood?

Yes. So are the first two, but that is all. I'm 6/10 on the current Google search for me though.

Searches for "flickr" and "facebook" are interesting. The former is just a typo, the latter still an internal Harvard-only website.

I don't think I realised you were at Cardiff (or when you were at Cardiff). I wonder if our paths ever crossed (maybe I spilt a pint on you at some point).

devilman · **Posted:** Wed Oct 01, 2008 10:31

ComicalGnomes wrote:

richardgaywood wrote:

CG's Greenday page wrote:

I'm back with a vengence

Already obsessed with vengeance, even so long ago?

Edit -- and it has a web counter GIF at the bottom too. Man, I haven't seen a real one of those in years. I think they all retired to a home with all the email me buttons (with spinning chrome 'e's) and animated WORK IN PROGRESS signs with a picture of a man digging up a road.

I HAD ALL OF THOSE THINGS

My archived (under the old url of webmad) version of the site has a counter at the bottom too

Doctor Glyndwr · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 32619

Joans wrote:

I don't think I realised you were at Cardiff (or when you were at Cardiff).

I did a BSc (computer science and physics) from Sep 98 - Jun 2001, then my PhD (compsci) from Sep 2001-Sep 2005. I lived in the city from 98 to mid 2003, and then moved back to where I grew up; but I was still here regularly doing PhD things. I am also in Cardiff RIGHT NOW as I've worked here since April.

Shin · **Posted:** Wed Oct 01, 2008 10:34

I was still in school

The Rev Owen · **Posted:** Wed Oct 01, 2008 10:39

devilman wrote:

My archived (under the old url of webmad) version of the site has a counter at the bottom too

And mine!

Plissken · **Posted:** Wed Oct 01, 2008 10:42

First web site

ElephantBanjoGnome · **Joined:** 22nd Dec, 2010 **Posts:** 8175

Plissken wrote:

First web site

My first commercial website, startlingly similar there plisk

Malc · **Posted:** Wed Oct 01, 2008 10:59

none of mine have been archived (apart from one, but the css file wasn't archived so it looks horrid)

Malc

Plissken · **Posted:** Wed Oct 01, 2008 11:03

ComicalGnomes wrote:

Plissken wrote:

First web site

My first commercial website, startlingly similar there plisk

Xara Webstyle got everywhere!

(There is a web place in Stockport with an entire mural done from a Webstyle original.)

GazChap · **Posted:** Wed Oct 01, 2008 11:07

My website in 2001.

ElephantBanjoGnome · **Joined:** 22nd Dec, 2010 **Posts:** 8175

GazChap wrote:

My website in 2001.

Your Adam's Apple could have someone's eye out if you're not careful.

Shin · **Posted:** Wed Oct 01, 2008 11:35

Good owd SCAT (the college!!) I remember fondly when some little sod decided to register that name under something else and the college was up in arms about it, good times, good times...

Hold on...

G-were you at Radbrook or London Road?!

GazChap · **Posted:** Wed Oct 01, 2008 12:01

I was at London Road. And yes, the debacle with shrewsburycollege.co.uk in 2005 was very amusing. It was actually me that sorted it all out and managed to get the domain name back for the college using the dispute resolution procedures. Turns out it was a student that had registered the domain and filled it with scatological pictures, and he'd registered it under his own name.

What a doofus.

Runcle · **Posted:** Wed Oct 01, 2008 12:39

youtube doesnt bring up a single result which I find amazing for some reason.

ElephantBanjoGnome · **Joined:** 22nd Dec, 2010 **Posts:** 8175

GazChap wrote:

I was at London Road. And yes, the debacle with shrewsburycollege.co.uk in 2005 was very amusing. It was actually me that sorted it all out and managed to get the domain name back for the college using the dispute resolution procedures. Turns out it was a student that had registered the domain and filled it with scatological pictures, and he'd registered it under his own name.

What a doofus.

When I was at North Shropshire College (although I think its now Walford and North Shropshire or something), the official domain was n-shropshire.ac.uk, and a guy I knew registered n-shropshire.co.uk and put a few little jokes about some teachers on it.

Oppsie, he was called in to see the principal, got a very stern talking to, and the domain name was thereafter blank until it expired and was then swiftly re-registered by the college. Haha!

Shin · **Posted:** Wed Oct 01, 2008 12:43

I was at London road aswell...that's creepy >.<
How long were you there??

GazChap · **Posted:** Wed Oct 01, 2008 12:54

Shin wrote:

I was at London road aswell...that's creepy >.<

Why on Earth is that creepy? It's probably the largest college in Shrewsbury and the surrounding area attendance-wise

I was there from September 2000 to July 2002.

And we're (as in, the company I work for, run by Curiosity's step-sister (?)) trying to persuade Shrewsbury College to let us re-do their website, because it's terrible and is running off a content management system that they bought for £10,000 from EDS without actually getting a demonstration of what it was capable of.

Doctor Glyndwr · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 32619

Runcle wrote:

youtube doesnt bring up a single result which I find amazing for some reason.

Wikipedia says "YouTube was created in February 2005 by three former PayPal employees."

Shin · **Posted:** Wed Oct 01, 2008 12:58

MaliA-send Gaz a PM please, he's being mean! :DD

No, it's just I think it's weird, it probably isn't-just thought you may have gone to sixth form aswell you prissy little intellectual you

SCAT was for duffers, it's MY realm.

We do all the garments and I know a lot of the staff, I MAY slip a good word in for you-you must kill the spider though

Runcle · **Posted:** Wed Oct 01, 2008 13:05

richardgaywood wrote:

Runcle wrote:

youtube doesnt bring up a single result which I find amazing for some reason.

Wikipedia says "YouTube was created in February 2005 by three former PayPal employees."

yeah I know but if you put myspace in you get 72000 search results, whereas youtube not even a single one. I think what I find amazing is how quickly a word can be created by the internet, search google today and you get something like 1 trillion results for youtube.

Bluecup · **Joined:** 31st Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 925

http://www.google.com/search2001/search ... gle+Search

Doesn't have any Bill and Ted on the first page!

The Rev Owen · **Posted:** Wed Oct 01, 2008 13:09

YouTube's only been around 3.5 years? Madness.

Joans · **Joined:** 31st Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 8648

richardgaywood wrote:

Joans wrote:

I don't think I realised you were at Cardiff (or when you were at Cardiff).

I did a BSc (computer science and physics) from Sep 98 - Jun 2001, then my PhD (compsci) from Sep 2001-Sep 2005. I lived in the city from 98 to mid 2003, and then moved back to where I grew up; but I was still here regularly doing PhD things. I am also in Cardiff RIGHT NOW as I've worked here since April.

I was busy failing a BSc in Maths from Sep 96 - Jun 2000, but Cardiff didn't want me around and I was forced to scurry off, very broke, in Feb 2001.

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Google's tenth birthday
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Google's tenth birthday Search like it's 2001

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Google's tenth birthday
Search like it's 2001