Happy birthday, Google: this week in tech, 20 years ago

One of 1998’s biggest tech stories was the massive antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft. It’s Monopoly Week on The Verge, so I wrote a bit about that lawsuit’s place in the ‘90s legal landscape. I also reviewed Antitrust, the 2001 thriller about a fictionalized Microsoft that murders software developers to steal their code.But today’s big news involves another incredibly important, potentially monopolistic tech company: Google, which was founded on September 4th, 19