Google's 25th Birthday: Origins and 10 fascinating facts you should know
The narrative began in January 1997 when Sergey Brin and Larry Page met at Stanford University, according to information on Google's own website. The responsibility of guiding Larry Page around the campus fell to Sergey Brin, who was a Ph.D.
candidate at the time. The seeds of what would become Google were first planted during this fortuitous encounter.
A year later, the two pioneers teamed up and toiled away from their dorm rooms to build a search engine prototype.
Their efforts paid off when they caught the eye of influential investors in Silicon Valley. Google Inc.
was created in August 1998 when Andy Bechtolsheim, a co-founder of Sun Microsystems, sent Larry Page and Sergey Brin a check for $100,000. Their first office was a modest garage in Menlo Park, California, which they moved into as a result of this crucial investment.
Over the years, Google had nothing less than amazing expansion, which finally led to the establishment of its current headquarters in Mountain View, California, also known as the «Googleplex.»
In a previous blog post, Google looked back on its journey and said, «A chance encounter between two computer scientists changed the course of the Internet and the lives of millions.»
In the words of Google: «Every day, there are billions of searches on Google in more than 150 languages around the world.
