The The I'm going host Brian McCullough.

This is a special episode of the podcast

because September 4th is the 20th anniversary

of Google's Incorporation as a company. I've actually heard from people

that work at Google many times that there's no firm or hard agreement on when Google's

birthday actually is inside the company because you know the original

back rub and page rank algorithms were developed in 9697 the domain

Google.com was actually registered on September 15th 1997 but I'm going to take and run with the

company's official incorporation on September 4th, 1998 as Google's official birthday.

In honor of that, I went back and recut the two chapter

episodes I did on Google to mush them all together into one big Dan Carlin style

mega episode and of course everything you'll hear in this episode is a

preview of the Google sections of my forthcoming book although the book will

have them in a drastically different format as when I recorded these episodes this was very much the first draft of course.

By the way if you haven't pre-ordered the book please do so wherever fine books are sold.

It's called How the Internet Happened by Brian McCullough.

There is an audiobook version.

You can pre-order as well.

I know that it has a page on Audible, but I don't know about other venues.

Anyway, happy birthday, Google. Please enjoy this history of Google through its IPO.

Welcome to the Internet History Podcast. I'm your host, Brian McCulloch.

When Larry Page and Sergei Bryn first met, they didn't like each other very much.

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