And so it began!

[HomunQlus]

http://web.archive.org/web/19981111183552/google.stanford.edu/

 

[cfleck]

Heh! I like that "Google" image better than the current one.

 

[adambyte]

Huh. I wonder why they dropped the "!" ... Too similar to "Yahoo!"?

 

[TommyWillB]

I think you answered your own question. The "!" was too Yahoo!-like.