The Original Google Storage


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

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.
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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.
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