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Thanks to a mutual friend, we rented our garage to two graduate students at Stanford
經朋友介紹 我們將車庫租給了兩個斯坦福研究生
who had just started a company, who were looking for office space
他們剛開了一家公司 正在尋找辦公場所
They seem nice
他們看起來很棒
There ideas sounded kind of crazy
他們的想法聽起來有些瘋狂
Back then
當時
no one had heard of Larry Page and Sergey Brin
沒人聽說過拉里·佩奇和謝爾蓋·布林
or the new company with the funny name
或是他們開的那家名字滑稽的公司
Google?
谷歌？
What?
什么
What does that mean?
這是什么意思
It doesn't really matter
這沒關系
As long as you guys pay the rent on time, you guys can build your Google anything here
只要你們能夠按時交房租 管你們是谷歌還是別的什么
Wednesday moved in, we have late night
一個周三的深夜
together in the garage, eating pizza and M&M's
我們一起坐在車庫吃批薩和M&M
when they talked to me about how their technology could change the world
他們跟我講 說自己的技術能夠改變世界
But then they would go on equally excited
之后他們同樣興奮地告訴我
about the fact that my house had a washer and dryer
說我家有洗衣機和烘干機真是太好了
They made bold proclamations
他倆很大膽地宣布說
We are going to organize the entire World Wide Web
我們將把全球網絡組織到一起
followed by -- which day is recycling day?
說完之后 他們問我 垃圾回收日是哪一天來著
And when I asked them how much experience they had to back their ambitious plan
我問他們 你們有多少經驗來支持這一雄心壯志
they would say well our combined age is almost 50
他們說 我們的年齡合起來可有將近50歲
and they were entering a competitive area
他們進入是一個競爭性極強的領域
There were many well-funded search engines
當時有很多資金充裕的搜索引擎公司
famous at the time, although you probably never heard of them
當時這些公司都很有名 只是你們可能沒聽說過
AltaVista, Lycos, Excite
比如AltaVista Lycos Excite
Can you imagine if you wanted to search for something online
想象一下 要搜索東西的時候你要說
and you had to say I'm going to AltaVista?
我要去AltaVista一下 這會是什么感覺
The answer, that would be kinda awkward
肯定會顯得非常笨拙
