Twenty Years

June 30, 2006

Twenty short years ago on this day I was born a very curious child in Houston. Soon after I was taking apart every electronic gadget I could get my hands on.. even the old 386 and Macintosh Centris 650, which was a great computer by the way. As some of my Greek readers have picked up on, yesterday was my name day. The best birthday present was the internship, which gets better everyday. Today I met the Yahoo! (the reason I keep putting that exclamation point after Yahoo! is that it’s part of the trademark/logo… it’s not just me being overly excited) founders, Jerry Yang and David Filo. They were speaking to the new interns and welcoming them to the Y.

Yahoo! Day 4 - Me with Y! Founders
Jerry liked my shirt.

As for the site, I’ve got a long 4 day weekend ahead so you can expect some great posts. I’ve been trying to write a microformats post for some time but I keep getting instant messaged by someone.

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38 comments … read them below or add one

  1. happy birthday stammy!

  2. I believe you are mistaken, you keep instant messaging me. I know you can’t help the fact that me being on the east coast and you on the west coast is straining or digital relationship but that is ok. I think you need to dress up in some 9rules schwag and parade around Yahoo! for advertising. Rock on at Yahoo! and bust some nerdy heads for me. Oh as a last thought, happy b-day.

  3. Devin says:

    Happy birthday, man. And wouldn’t you say they were welcoming to the “Y!”? ;-)

  4. David says:

    Happy Birthday!

  5. Bryan Veloso says:

    Happy birthday dude. :D

  6. Happy Birthday Paul!
    May all your wishes come true, including the ones related, perhaps, to whatever features you would like Mac OS X Leopard to come with, so we could get benefited from them as well ;-)

    Χρόνια Πολλά!

  7. Jerry Chacon says:

    Happy Birthday old man. And may you have a great next two decades.

    - Jerry

  8. Hahaha, yes I can’t wait for Leopard. I hope it runs like magic on the macbook.

  9. Steven says:

    Happy birthday! Woohoo! Cake! Balloons!

  10. kristin says:

    Happy birthday Stammy!

  11. Dimitry says:

    Nice pic! I definitely just stormed out of that room. Dave is apparently pretty approachable, so I hope to meet up with him some other time.

    Happy Birthday man :)

    I’m going home for a week, but when I get back. Phil and I are going to San Francisco to tour (for real this time!) with a friend of ours at Y!. You’re more than welcome to come unless you venture out there sometime during this long weekend.

    Talk to you later
    Dimitry

  12. John T P says:

    Happy Birthday Paul :-)

  13. viperteq says:

    Happy B-Day Paul!!!

  14. Thincvox says:

    Happy bday, Paul! Welcome to Y!

  15. Stelabouras says:

    Omg i have just made 3 comments in 2 days and i am wishing all the time! :) :)
    Happy birthday!
    Na ta ekatostiseis!!

  16. Prashant says:

    Congratulations! I love your t-shirt as well :)

  17. Titanas says:

    Xronia polla man for both your b-day and name day!

  18. kristo says:

    HB Paul. It’s good age!

  19. Dimos Stamatiou says:

    Happy bithday and name day, Paul!

    Χρόνια πολά! Να τα εκατοστήσεις και να χαίρεσαι και τη γιορτή σου!!!

  20. philos says:

    Χρόνια Πολλά, μεγάλε! Ότι επιθυμείς να το πάθεις!!!

  21. Trey says:

    ummm…..happy birthday.

  22. Damien says:

    Happy Birthday!

  23. Lucian Marin says:

    Happy Birthday! I bet t-shits with 192.168.0.1 are useless at Yahoo! :P

  24. Happy Birthday PAUL! . Many Many Happy Returns of the Day.

  25. Aaron T. says:

    Happy birthday. You’re only 3 years older than I am. Almost exactly.

  26. Cas says:

    Happy name- and birthday Paul :)

  27. Chen says:

    Happy birthday!

  28. Indranil says:

    Happy birthday man! have a blast! Break a leg (not literally).

  29. Chris Maxwell says:

    Happy birthday, yo. Glad you’re enjoying yourself. Keep it up.

  30. weisheng says:

    Wow, Jerry Yang! Happy birthday!

  31. Oyvind says:

    Happy birthday, Paul!

    There’s no place like 66.94.230.34. You need a new t-shirt…

  32. Dennis says:

    Excellent! Have a good one.

  33. Phil Freo says:

    happy bday old man, see ya next week.

  34. Ming 2.0 says:

    enjoy! and i hope you make some life improving change for the rest of the world from yahoo!

    Go Man!

  35. I totally have that exact shirt. THAT EXACT ONE. Happy Birthday!

  36. J_K9 says:

    Better late than never, right? :D

    Happy Birthday!

  37. Nipon says:

    Belated Happy Birthday Paul!

  38. Peter Filias says:

    Ah…forgot to wish you a happy nameday, Paul. Hope all is well.

    Of course, it was my nameday, too. :)

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