Search engine giant Google turns 6 years old in a birthday celebration that has seen much change over the years. On September 7, 1998, Google Inc. opened its door for the first time in Menlo Park, California. The door came with a remote control as it was attached to the garage of a friend who sublet space to the new corporation’s staff of three.
The office offered several advantages, including a washer and dryer and a hot tub. It also provided a parking space for the first employee hired by the new company – Craig Silverstein, now Google’s director of technology. According to Google lore, though, company founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin were not very fond of each other when they first met as Stanford University graduate students in computer science in 1995.
