Business Insider preserved Google+ posts of Larry Page, Sergey Brin and other execs - the posts are silly, whimsical and at times eerily foreboding.
That's a significant loss and it's raising concerns among advocates of corporate accountability, journalists and people interested in preserving history.
It also means that the sillier posts from Google's top brass, as well as posts that are now eerily ironic years later, have vanished from the public view as well. Luckily, before these accounts were deleted on Tuesday, Business Insider snagged some screenshots of the finest posts from Google executives we could find.Google co-founder Larry Page was the initial champion of the Google+ social network. To encourage its growth, he led by example and shared things like his favorite pancake recipe.The background image for Page's profile during the entirety of Google+'s 8-year existence was this raccoon — we're not sure why.
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