The Original Google Storage

By Miss Cellania in Blogs & Internet on Jul 31, 2008 at 7:48 am


In 1996, Larry Page and Sergey Brin were Stanford University graduate students, working on their Digital Library Project, later known as Google. They needed a lot of storage, and the largest hard disk available was 4 gigabytes. So they connected ten of them together and built their own 40GB drive, in a case made of of Legos. It is now on display at the Stanford University Museum. Link -via the Presurfer


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  1. Larfin Jackarse
    Jul 31st, 2008 at 7:56 am

    Are you fair dinkum?

    This smells of urban myth so badly. However, I do believe it.

    So can lego sue Google for pwnership?

  2. Larfin Jackarse
    Jul 31st, 2008 at 7:56 am

    Ohh…first again. I am so good.

  3. CheeseDuck
    Jul 31st, 2008 at 8:09 am

    Maybe thats why their logo is so colorful!

  4. Larfin Jackarse
    Jul 31st, 2008 at 8:29 am

    @Cheeseduck.

    Good point! Bugger, missed the obvious.

  5. andrew
    Jul 31st, 2008 at 9:19 am

    Those aren’t LEGO, they look more like DUPLO

  6. Lukas
    Jul 31st, 2008 at 11:10 am

    I have a neighbor down the street who met the two. She tells me that one of them (I forget) made a printer out of Lego as a teenager too.

  7. Thomas
    Jul 31st, 2008 at 12:41 pm

    Definitely the inferior Duplo.

  8. biltmore
    Jul 31st, 2008 at 1:10 pm

    Enough with the “first!” crap Larfin Jackarse. How old are you, 12?

  9. Christophe
    Jul 31st, 2008 at 1:11 pm

    insert Duplo comment here as well.

  10. DaveB
    Jul 31st, 2008 at 5:57 pm

    Calling it “the Stanford University Museum” is a stretch, considering it’s just a case outside a lecture hall in the basement of the Gates Computer Science building.

  12. Thomas
    Aug 1st, 2008 at 12:31 am

    Agreed, firsting comments is like being proud to be the first to show up at a party. Sure, you beat the rush, but it usually just means you have no life.

  13. andiscandis
    Aug 1st, 2008 at 8:51 am

    Cheeseduck- I thought the same. I was always drawn to the Google logo and I’m a lifetime fan of Legos (and Duplos and Tycos). Now it all makes sense!

  14. LH
    Aug 1st, 2008 at 12:24 pm

    I will never understand that passion for the Lego.

  15. Thomas
    Aug 1st, 2008 at 5:14 pm

    Nor will you ever understand true happiness. God put legos on earth so that men could become like tiny gods. We create, destroy and rebuild as we see fit. I personally feel that legos are as close to divinity as anything made by the hands of man can be.

  16. Mat
    Mar 18th, 2010 at 7:39 pm

    Definitely not Lego. Duplo was shit.


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