google.com (Sept 1998, from Archive.org)

[Darren Dirt]

About
http://web.archive.org/web/19990204033714/http://google.stanford.edu/about.html


and zomg look at the size of those hard drives!
http://web.archive.org/web/19990209043945/http://google.stanford.edu/googlehardware.html




"Backrub" was its predecessor:
http://www.google.com/about/company/history.html


http://web.archive.org/web/19971210065425/backrub.stanford.edu/backrub.html

Sorry, many services are unavailable due to a local network faliure beyond our control. We are working to fix the problem and hope to be back up soon. 12/4/97

[Mr. Analog]

O baby, think of all the ... text you could store!

[Darren Dirt]

As long as you can come up with a really smart search algorithm!

Oh, wait...
http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2067&cid=1595420




IIRC Wired had a special issue on the 10th9th anniversary of The Goog
http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2007/09/dayintech_0907