Google's 1st server was housed in a cabinet of Lego bricks

Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, while pursuing PhD at Stanford University in 1996 used Lego pieces to house their first storage device. At the time, 4GB hard disks were the largest available, so they stacked 10 of them into a cabinet assembled using Lego bricks. By 2008, Google had thousands of servers, indexing over a trillion unique pages.

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