Instructions: Identify all the verbs written in the simple past tense form in the short text given below .

Google’s founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, met in 1995 when they were in their twenties and graduate students in computer science at Stanford University in California. They realized that Internet search was a very important field and began working together to make searching easier. Both Page and Brin left their studies at Stanford to work on their project. Though they have been successful in creating the software, surprisingly, they have never returned to finish their study for their degree.