I'm leaving out that one time that EricS talked about the in-RAM index by accident. I think a few folks chided him, he never mentioned it again, and nobody happened to pick up on the slip. (Memory-based searching is much faster than spinning disks.)
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The story gets everything right, but brings up a lot of fond memories. Like, the March index seemed to be cursed each year? I think one year somebody reversed < and > and the index got built in reverse PageRank order? Yeesh. That was ugly.
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And of the people in the story, Craig made fresh bread in the office & walked around the Zeroplex saying "breeeeeaaaaadddd." Bogdan was the roller hockey organizer. I used to joke that he could walk from his car into the office & find six things to be annoyed about on the way.
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I hope that somebody gathers some of the early stories or an oral history at some point.
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Thanks for sharing this article, I found it very interesting and a great read. Thanks again
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This is awesome. Also, Matt’s anecdotes below are great!

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