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is he the real Larry? or just another one with the same name?

    From: p...@cs.stanford.edu (Lawrence Page)
    Subject: Q: Setting User-Agent Field?
    Date: 1996/01/07
    Message-ID: <page-0701962007020001@qwerty.stanford.edu>#1/1
    X-Deja-AN: 134550259
    organization: Stanford University
    reply-to: p...@cs.stanford.edu
    newsgroups: comp.lang.java

It's him. Google began in 1996, was initially developed in Java, and well, he's trying to write a web robot to visit pages.

Full headers at https://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.java/msg/88fa10845...

same larry. page@cs.stanford.edu, in 1996

yes, that's me

Prove it's you and make Google's stock go back up.

Alternatively, get Matt Cutts to vouch for you.

I don't see Larry that often, but the next time we cross paths, I'll try to ask "Hey, was that you on Hacker News?" :)

Aha. I've now seen the somewhat-discussed green username. Too bad you can't fake a decades-old HN registration. :-)

Why should the real Larry Page have an old username?

And decades-old is not possible. HN isn't that old.

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