Google's Remarkable 25-Year Journey: From a Dorm Room to Tech Domination
On September 27, 2023, tech enthusiasts worldwide celebrated Google's 25th birthday. This remarkable journey of the American tech titan began in the most unassuming of places and has since transformed our digital world. Picture above: the mid-'90s at Stanford University, where two brilliant minds, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, were pursuing their doctoral degrees in computer science. Little did they know that their collaboration would shape the future of the internet. Their research project, initially dubbed "BackRub," eventually evolved into the iconic search engine we now know as Google. Larry Page delved into the intricacies of the World Wide Web's link structure, laying the groundwork for a groundbreaking search algorithm that would propel Google to its current status as a search giant. By 1998, their project had blossomed into Google, a name inspired by 'Googol,' a mathematical term representing an immensely large number. In August 1998, Google In...