Life on the Farm

Where did Google start? Google started here!!



While visiting my good friend David Menestrina at Stanford, he showed me this cool little gizmo made out of Lego Duplo blocks located deep in the bowels of the CS building! It is the "case" that the Google founders built to put their first hard drives in to run Google with. I'm not sure what the hard drives did exactly, maybe do the first caching of the web? According to the Mercury News, "In their early days, Google's founders crafted hard disk drives out of Lego-like toys called Duplo." Now that would be something. :)

So thanks Dave!

Also, rumor has it that these blocks inspire the color of Google's letters on its homepage. I'm starting to think that's true because also found in the Merc article: "Eustace handed the winners their trophies, made out of Legos" Obviously, they stay in touch with their roots. Go Lego!

ps. About the subject heading: "Locals and university affiliates are known to refer to the school as The Farm, a nod to the institution's origins as a horse farm." quote from the Wikipedia.