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Re:Google was incorporated 25 years ago on September 4 1998 by KerrAvon on Tuesday September 05, 2023 @08:09PM (#37399614)
You really need to read some mid-90's books like Microserfs or some of the early Mac histories for some historical context. None of this was new or particularly unusual in the valley at the time.

-- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microserfs.

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Re:Google was incorporated 25 years ago on September 4 1998 by dekhn on Tuesday September 05, 2023 @09:06PM (#37400089)
One of the thigns that attracted me to Silicon Valley was the book Hackers, which has this classic line:

"During this period when everybody at Apple was celebrating the increasing revenues piles of money that would make many of them so rich that they would be beyond millionaires, in the ozone of Croesus Mode, where wealth is counted in units of tens of millions John Draper was at home, playing with his Apple"

"wealth is counted in units of tens of millions" how cute!

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