Off-topic message confusion

[Roger Merchberger]

Rumor has it that Eric Smith may have mentioned these words:
> > How old is google anyway? Presumably it'll be on topic in a year or
> > two? ;)

Doubtful, Yahoo's only 10 years old, according to one reference - and it 
even includes what Yahoo originally stood for:

http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum9/5082.htm

When this list was started, AltaVista was king with Yahoo not far behind, 
IIRC; Google didn't come around for a few years after that.

>And did anyone save an old Google for the archives?  :-)

Isn't that what Google's for? Saving things like [g]mail forever, even 
after you delete it??? :-P

http://web.archive.org/web/19990209043945/google.stanford.edu/googlehardware.html

According to that, google's got just over 4 years to go before being ontopic...

{{ I just *gotta* add this!!! ;-) }}

Ya know, a simple google search found this and more!

http://www.google.com/search?q=how+old+is+google

Merry Xmas!
Roger "Merch" Merchberger

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