Google Celebrates 25th Anniversary With A Quirky Doodle

Celebrating its 25th anniversary, Google has dedicated a quirky doodle on the homepage for itself today. The GIF shows all of Google’s old logos, ending with the current one in which the two ‘o’s are replaced with the number ’25’.

Google Inc. was officially established on September 27, 1998. The tech giant said in a blog that its journey began when doctoral students Sergert Brin and Larry Page met at Stanford University’s computer science program in the late 1990s.

They worked towards making the World Wide Web more accessible to people and started developing a prototype for a better search engine, said the blog, adding that while the duo started their work from their dorm rooms, they later shifted their operations to a rented garage, which became Google’s first office.

The concept of doodle came by as the founders wanted to show their attendance at the Burning Man festival in the Nevada desert before the company’s beginning. The first doodle was a stick figure drawing behind the 2nd “o” in the word, Google and the logo comically showed that the founders were “out of office”.

Later, Dennis Hwang, who was then an intern at the company but went on to become Google’s doodler, was asked to produce a doodle for Bastille Day in 2000, which was well received by users. Since then, Google started coming up with doodles. So far Google’s team of illustrators and engineers have created more than 5,000 doodles._Indian_Express