<story><title>Google&apos;s 20th Birthday</title><url>https://www.google.com/doodles/googles-20th-birthday</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mapgrep</author><text>I remember using Google when it was hosted at Stanford.edu, luckily internet archive captures this moment:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;web.archive.org&amp;#x2F;web&amp;#x2F;19981111183552&amp;#x2F;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;google.stanford.edu:80&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;web.archive.org&amp;#x2F;web&amp;#x2F;19981111183552&amp;#x2F;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;google.sta...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Notice that the branding is &amp;quot;Google!&amp;quot; with an exclamation point, just like that other Stanford tool for finding stuff online, Yahoo!.&lt;p&gt;The &amp;quot;About Google!&amp;quot; page is pretty interesting, includes links to Sergey and Larry&amp;#x27;s grad school personal home pages:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;web.archive.org&amp;#x2F;web&amp;#x2F;19990204033714&amp;#x2F;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;google.stanford.edu:80&amp;#x2F;about.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;web.archive.org&amp;#x2F;web&amp;#x2F;19990204033714&amp;#x2F;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;google.sta...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;It also includes, under &amp;quot;credits,&amp;quot; this:&lt;p&gt;Research Funding: NSF, NASA, DARPA and Interval Research&lt;p&gt;So remember, Google may be touted as a quintessential Silicon Valley startup, but, like virtually all of them, it owes a lot to the work of the federal government.&lt;p&gt;(And what is Interval Research, you might ask? Wikipedia says it was a Palo Alto tech incubator co-founded by Paul Allen — previously the co-founder of Microsoft. Lol.)</text></comment>
<story><title>Google&apos;s 20th Birthday</title><url>https://www.google.com/doodles/googles-20th-birthday</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tschellenbach</author><text>Congrats Google! You guys have made the world a better place. Search, Adwords, Chrome, Gmail, Maps, Navigation, Youtube, Android, Docs, Drive to name a few. Don&amp;#x27;t forget about that with everything that&amp;#x27;s going on. Sometimes the internet feels like it&amp;#x27;s a bit too focused on negative things.</text></comment>