A Search Engine That’s Becoming an Inventor – New York Times:
Great article about Google building their tech infrastructure:
“Mr. Page designed the initial Google servers, with the assumption that parts would fail on a regular basis. At first he tried to simplify assembly — and reduce the presumed repair time — by not fastening components to the servers at all but simply laying them on a bed of cork. This proved to be unstable, and so parts were connected with Velcro.”
I love it – Brilliant.