This was the original “Google Search Engine Computer Storage” system that started it all in 1996. More pictures after the jump…

“Crawling the web to obtain its link structure required an enormous amount of storage in comparison with typical student projects at that time. We show here the original storage assembly, containing 10 4 Gigabyte disk drives, giving 40 Gbytes total.”

Source: [Stanford]

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