Twenty Years

June 30, 2006 · 39 comments

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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1 josue salazar June 30, 2006 at 12:03 am

happy birthday stammy!

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2 Chris Morrell June 30, 2006 at 12:04 am

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.

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3 Devin June 30, 2006 at 12:05 am

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

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4 David June 30, 2006 at 12:16 am

Happy Birthday!

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5 Bryan Veloso June 30, 2006 at 12:23 am

Happy birthday dude. :D

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6 Mark Papadakis June 30, 2006 at 12:23 am

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!

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7 Jerry Chacon June 30, 2006 at 12:23 am

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

- Jerry

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8 Paul Stamatiou June 30, 2006 at 12:24 am

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

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9 Steven June 30, 2006 at 12:32 am

Happy birthday! Woohoo! Cake! Balloons!

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10 kristin June 30, 2006 at 1:02 am

Happy birthday Stammy!

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11 Dimitry June 30, 2006 at 1:08 am

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

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12 John T P June 30, 2006 at 1:26 am

Happy Birthday Paul :-)

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13 viperteq June 30, 2006 at 1:45 am

Happy B-Day Paul!!!

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14 Thincvox June 30, 2006 at 2:06 am

Happy bday, Paul! Welcome to Y!

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15 Stelabouras June 30, 2006 at 3:22 am

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

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16 Prashant June 30, 2006 at 4:02 am

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

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17 Titanas June 30, 2006 at 4:51 am

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

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18 kristo June 30, 2006 at 5:50 am

HB Paul. It’s good age!

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19 Dimos Stamatiou June 30, 2006 at 6:04 am

Happy bithday and name day, Paul!

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

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20 philos June 30, 2006 at 6:40 am

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

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21 Trey June 30, 2006 at 8:17 am

ummm…..happy birthday.

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22 Damien June 30, 2006 at 8:19 am

Happy Birthday!

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23 Lucian Marin June 30, 2006 at 9:03 am

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

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24 Bharath Kumar June 30, 2006 at 9:10 am

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

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25 Aaron T. June 30, 2006 at 11:11 am

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

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26 Cas June 30, 2006 at 11:14 am

Happy name- and birthday Paul :)

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27 Chen June 30, 2006 at 12:24 pm

Happy birthday!

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28 Indranil June 30, 2006 at 2:00 pm

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

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29 Chris Maxwell June 30, 2006 at 2:26 pm

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

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30 weisheng June 30, 2006 at 2:42 pm

Wow, Jerry Yang! Happy birthday!

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31 Oyvind June 30, 2006 at 5:21 pm

Happy birthday, Paul!

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

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32 Dennis June 30, 2006 at 6:04 pm

Excellent! Have a good one.

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33 Phil Freo June 30, 2006 at 8:08 pm

happy bday old man, see ya next week.

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34 Ming 2.0 June 30, 2006 at 10:21 pm

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

Go Man!

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35 Christian Montoya July 2, 2006 at 3:21 pm

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

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36 J_K9 July 2, 2006 at 7:45 pm

Better late than never, right? :D

Happy Birthday!

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37 Nipon July 4, 2006 at 7:26 am

Belated Happy Birthday Paul!

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38 Peter Filias July 6, 2006 at 5:17 pm

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

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

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