Humans.txt

google.com

17 pointsreaperducer4 comments

Feels weird to see this. How long has it been there? It very much reflects early Google culture and is so, so dissonant with contemporary Google.

Reminds me of Ask Jeeves's "THE ALGORITHM IS FROM NEW JERSEY", "THE ALGORITHM CONSTANTLY FINDS JESUS" etc from the same era early Google culture came from

Around May 2011

April 2011, not found: https://web.archive.org/web/20110204131427/http://www.google...

May 2011, similar text to the current one: https://web.archive.org/web/20110507142249/http://www.google...

Discussion at that time:

May 2011 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2522220 - 57 comments

Discussion 8 years ago:

April 2016 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11498672 - 89 comments

> last-modified: Mon, 01 Jul 2019 19:30:00 GMT

Surprised that it actually seems to reflect the changes.

Why surprised? I'd expect that an org like Google has their file timestamps and cache headers in order for a static txt file.

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