Google registered its domain 20 years ago today
Marketing Tech News | September 15, 2017
Monday 15 September 1997 probably didn’t seem like a particularly momentous day at the time. But while everyone was jamming to ‘Honey’ by Mariah Carey and considering going to see cutting-edge thriller ‘The Game’ in the cinema, Larry page and Sergey Brin were registering the Google domain name. The project, which was originally given the creepy name BackRub, had started a year early while the pair were students at Stanford.