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Where IT giants were born

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Where IT giants were born Ever wondered what's common between today's top technology companies like Apple, Microsoft, Cisco, of course, apart from their roaring success, high revenue growth and huge cash chest? Their humble beginnings. Almost all IT giants had their birth in some small garage, apartments or a tiny hostel room. Here's inside the birth places of the top tech companies, places where today's IT giants took their first steps. Apple Apple was born in the company's CEO Steve Jobs' parents spare bedroom. The room was basically a garage attached to his home at 2066 Crist Dr, Los Altos, California. It was here that Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, along with Ronald G Wayne joined hands to build Apple Computer in 1976. The garage room served as Apple's first manufacturing base, with the first 50 Apple 1s built here. The consignment was sold to Paul Jay Terrell's Byte Shop for $500 each. Hewlett-Packard The tree-lined residential street near Stanford University leads to a 12x18foot garage where in 1939 college friends Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard laid the foundation of today's largest personal computer manufacturer, Hewlett-Packard. The garage served as research lab, development workshop and manufacturing facility for the company's early products including Model 200A audio oscillator. In 1940, HP moved into larger quarters on Page Mill Road. eBay Few people know that the popular online auction site eBay started at the founder Pierre Omidyar's San Jose living room in September 1995. The site was then known as AuctionWeb and hosted on the same server as Omidyar's page about the ebola virus. Later as it grew, it became

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www.ebay.com, short for Echo Bay Technology Group, the name of Omidyar's consulting firm. Google Another technology giant that started its operaions in a garage is Google. Company's co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin laid the foundation stones of the world's no 1 Internet giant at a garage in California. The garage at at 232 Santa Margarita Avenue, Menlo Park, was taken on rent from Susan Wojcicki, who later became a Google employee. The duo took the 2,000 square feet, a four-bedroom home, for $1,700 a month. The company also hosted its first data center here. In a news report they said, "The office offered several big 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." When Page and Brin first moved into the garage, Google had just been incorporated with a bankroll of $1 million raised from a handful of investors. By 1999, Google began serving 500,000 queries a day and the company moved from the four walls garage to a mega Googleplex headquarters in Mountain View, California. In 2006, Google paid an undisclosed fee for the 177-square-metre property in Menlo Park, California. Reports say that it would have cost them $1.3 million. Facebook Ever wondered what is the birthplace of the world's most popular social networking site Facebook. At third floor of Kirkland House room, Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook with fellow computer science major students and his room mates Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes while he was a student at Harvard University in the year 2004. Kirkland House is one of the 12 undergraduate houses at Harvard University, located near the Charles River in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Microsoft Little did Bill Gates knew that he was building world's largest software giant when he started Microsoft from a rented accommodation in Albuquerque, New Mexico with friend Paul Allen. In 1975, Gates along with Allen dropped out of Harvard university to start the company. At Harvard University, Gates and his high school friend Paul Allen worked on a version of the programming language BASIC for the first microcomputer -- MITS Altair. According to reports Gates and Allen wrote the company's first software in a Harvard lab on a PDP-10 computer. Cisco Do you know where did the networking giant Cisco laid its founding stone. It was at a college computer lab. Founded in 1984, Cisco started with a group of computer scientists from Stanford University. According to reports, the university received compensation for unauthorised use of its facilities and software developed on its time. LinkedIn The most popular career networking site LinkedIn traced its origin to the living room of its founder Reid Hoffman. The networking site for professionals, LinkedIn was founded in late 2002 with the money Hoffman had made from the sale of PayPal which he helped build. According to reports, LinkedIn has over 60 million registered users as of Feb 2010. Dell Dobie Center, a privately-owned twenty-seven story residence hall located adjacent to the University of Texas at Austin campus is the birth place of the world's second largest PC maker Dell. CEO Michael Dell founded the company in room No 2713 of Dobie Center. From here, CEO Michael started selling computers via email in 1984.

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Amazon Just like HP and Apple, online retailer Amazon.com too got started in a garage. In the year 1995, founder Jeff Bezos started the company in the garage of his Bellevue, Washington house he had bought. Bezos named the company after the name of the world's largest river.

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