Bert Garcia^2.0

Originally called BackRub, it’s home was Stanford University in 1998.

The young search engine, written in Java and Python, ran on the following hardware:

1. Sun Ultra II with dual 200 MHz processors, 256MB of RAM.
   • Storage boxes included 3 × 9GB drives and 6 × 4GB drives.
2. 2 × 300 MHz Dual Pentium II Servers, 512MB of RAM.
   • Internal 9 × 9GB drives between the two.
3. F50 IBM RS/6000 with 4 processors, 512MB of RAM and 8 × 9GB drives.
   • IBM disk expansion box with another 8 × 9GB drives.
4. Homemade disk box which contained 10 × 9GB SCSI drives.

• Donated by the Intel ² and IBM ³ corporations.

The mature search engine is now a verb, just BackRub it.

All for freedom and for pleasure
Nothing ever lasts forever
Everybody wants to rule the world