Terri Irwin wrote in a guest blog post for Google. “Today’s Google Doodle acknowledges the life and achievements of my husband Steve Irwin, whose efforts to protect wildlife and wild places have been recognised as the most extensive of any conservationist,” his wife Dr. Follow Steve's journey as a zookeeper, conservationist and father → 🐊❤️ /qJZ3RRkbne Irwin’s life was tragically cut short when the barb from a stingray went through his chest while he was filming in 2006, but his legacy of loving and protecting wildlife lives on, most recently in a Google Doodle today honoring his birthday.Ĭrikey! Today's #GoogleDoodle in Australia, NZ and around the world celebrates Steve Irwin and his legacy. On September 4, Page and Brin got the company registered in California and opened a bank account in the newly registered company’s name to make use of Bechtolsheim’s cheque.February 22 is the birthday of conservationist and beloved TV personality “Crocodile Hunter” Steve Irwin, who would have been 57 years old today. In August 1998, the co-founder of Sun Microsystems - a computer hardware and software company that was facing market competition at the time - Andy Bechtolsheim wrote a $100,000 cheque to Google, a company that did not exist at the time. Before this, their search engine was eating up most of Stanford’s bandwidth. On September 15, 1997, Page and Brin registered a domain name for their search engine. The search engine got the name Google from the mathematical term “googol” which refers to one followed by 100 zeroes. Together, the duo had developed BackRub, an algorithm that crawled the web to understand its mathematical hierarchy and rank the web pages according to the number of the reputed links directed at them. Page had recently arrived at Stanford for a PhD in computer science after graduating from Michigan University, and Brin, also a PhD student, was responsible for showing him around the campus.Īs 1995 passed and 1996 arrived, a partnership between Page and Brin was formed that changed the course of history.
When 22-year-old Lawrence Page and 21-year-old Sergey Brin met for the first time at the Computer Science department of Stanford University, they disagreed with each other on almost everything.
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