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Trorbes

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Google ca. 2001
« on: October 01, 2008, 07:22:38 pm »
In honor of their 10th anniversary, Google has released an archive of their search index from way back in 2001.  Now you can relive the simpler times, when the entire internet was on only a few billion pages.
http://www.google.com/search2001.html

P.S.  I found something quite interesting.
One of Toady's earlier games?
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Re: Google ca. 2001
« Reply #1 on: October 01, 2008, 07:26:53 pm »
Yeah, Loserball was mentioned in an interview once.
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Re: Google ca. 2001
« Reply #2 on: October 01, 2008, 09:02:06 pm »
Toady made Loserball!?

Holy shit. I remember that game from middle school.
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Re: Google ca. 2001
« Reply #3 on: October 01, 2008, 09:39:19 pm »
In the interest of science, I decided to compare certain web page count numbers from then and now.

Porn------------------Then = 4.5 Million
                               Now  = 236 Million

Barack Obama ------- Then = 773
                               Now  = 64 Million

Dwarf Fortress ------- Then = 10,000
                                Now = 228,000

Google ---------- -----Then = 4 Million
                                Now = 3 Billion



I encourage you to continue this experiment.


edit: Clarification
« Last Edit: October 01, 2008, 09:51:02 pm by Salmeuk »
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Re: Google ca. 2001
« Reply #4 on: October 01, 2008, 09:43:33 pm »
Oddly enough, I was one of those Barack Obama searches. I read a little about him and was like "This guy sounds like an idiot." Of course, now that I know more than that he's a senator and from Illinois (I consider those both to be bad things), I like him.

Hilarious.
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Re: Google ca. 2001
« Reply #5 on: October 02, 2008, 03:53:07 am »
Oh wow, one of my first thoughts was to search for my old website and see how long ago i made it.
It was there.
Amazingly, almost all the stuff on it still works.
I should try and remember the password and such, so i can delete it.
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Re: Google ca. 2001
« Reply #6 on: October 02, 2008, 04:02:24 am »
subpime crisis: 1

and its from ACORN, talking about how they exploit minorities.

If you follow politics at all, this is fucking hilarious.
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Re: Google ca. 2001
« Reply #7 on: October 02, 2008, 12:26:14 pm »
Global warming in 2001: 522000 hits
Global warming now:     48900000 hits

I win!

Also,

Zomg in 2001 : 54 hits
Zomg now:      3880000 hits

I win even more.
« Last Edit: October 02, 2008, 12:29:54 pm by Asheron »
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Re: Google ca. 2001
« Reply #8 on: October 02, 2008, 12:49:36 pm »
'Iraq' then - 1,210,000
'Iraq' now - 283,000,000
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Re: Google ca. 2001
« Reply #9 on: October 02, 2008, 03:18:34 pm »
"Weapons of mass destruction"

Google, 2001: 223 G's
Google, now: 6 and a half million
Iraq, 2003-2008: I won't even bother rubbing it in I guess
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Re: Google ca. 2001
« Reply #10 on: October 02, 2008, 05:24:25 pm »
Osama bin Laden, Jan 2001: 45800
Osama bin Laden, Oct 200: 14500000

bin Laden, Jan 2001: 175000
bin Laden, Oct 2008: 18700000

Osama, Jan 2001: 69600
Osama, Oct 2008: 23900000

Thought the 'now' would've been higher.  Oh, and the FBI was already offering $5 million for him.  Huh.  Why, I don't know, since the FBI only handles internal affairs.
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Re: Google ca. 2001
« Reply #11 on: October 02, 2008, 08:25:25 pm »
I did a random search of what many people hate.

2001 Runescape: 842
2008 Runescape: 23,300,000

2001 Naruto: 51,400
2008 Naruto: 15,900,000

2001 World of Warcraft: 79,700
2008 World of Warcraft: 46,000,000

2001 EA: 4,870,000
2008 EA: 303,000,000

2001 DRM: 95,000
2008 DRM: 40,700,000

2001 Securom: 2,810
2008 Securom: 1,100,000

2001 Okenido: 0
2008 Okenido: 219
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Re: Google ca. 2001
« Reply #12 on: October 02, 2008, 08:30:48 pm »

 Seems people always hated EA.

 I wonder if you can see the time before memes came about. Like the time BEFORE Chuck Norris became American Jesus.
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Re: Google ca. 2001
« Reply #13 on: October 02, 2008, 09:18:45 pm »
Chuck Norris is (believed to be) the personification of GI Joe, Real American Hero.
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Re: Google ca. 2001
« Reply #14 on: October 02, 2008, 09:57:20 pm »
HAhaha.
EA = Evangelical Asossiation.

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6, IWM has dead by laugh.
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