What language was Google written in at the beginning?

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never_had_a_name picture never_had_a_name · May 21, 2010 · Viewed 21.5k times · Source

I wonder what language Larry Page and Sergey Brin wrote Google with?

I'm not talking about the languages that are used today, but about the version they launched from their dorm.

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SQLMenace picture SQLMenace · May 21, 2010

From here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Google:

Some Rough Statistics (from August 29th, 1996)

Total indexable HTML urls: 75.2306 Million
Total content downloaded: 207.022 gigabytes
...

BackRub is written in Java and Python and runs on several Sun Ultras and Intel Pentiums running Linux.

The primary database is kept on an Sun Ultra II with 28GB of disk. Scott Hassan and Alan Steremberg have provided a great deal of very talented implementation help. Sergey Brin has also been very involved and deserves many thanks.

-Larry Page [email protected]

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