It made google honestly.

Morality and justice are a pretty important topic among geeks, and geeks were the best salesmen of Google at the begining.

We needed it. Internet was going to be this incredible place were we would all share and learn, create communities and make people closer to each others. Money people didn't understand it, technical person did, so we though we found a place were finally, we could create such a thing.

Of course, it was bs.