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When Google Was Just a PhD Project: The Story of BackRub
Let’s imagine it’s 1996. You’re in your dorm room at Stanford, running code obsessively, eating instant noodles at 3 AM, and there’s rumors you just crashed the campus network. This wasn’t some hacker…. You were probably Larry Page or Sergey Brin. That was BackRub time. BackRub: The OG Google BackRub was the name of Larry and… Read more