In honor of its 25th anniversary, Google posted a unique doodle on its homepage on Wednesday.
All of Google’s previous logos are included in the GIF, which concludes with the present design, which has two ‘o’s substituted with the number ’25’.
Founded formally on September 27, 1998, Google Inc. The tech giant said in a blog post that its history began when Ph.D. students Larry Page and Serger Brin connected while studying computer science at Stanford University in the late 1990s.
The blog stated that the two started their work from their dorm rooms but later moved their operations to a rented garage, which became Google’s first office. They worked to make the World Wide Web more accessible to people and began developing a prototype for a better search engine.
“Much has changed since 1998 — including our logo as seen in today’s Doodle — but the mission has remained the same: to organise the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. Billions of people from all over the globe use Google to search, connect, work, play, and SO much more! Thank you for evolving with us over the past 25 years. We can’t wait to see where the future takes us, together,” read the post.
The idea for doodle originated from the founders’ desire to demonstrate their attendance at the Burning Man festival in the Nevada desert prior to the establishment of the company. The original doodle featured an illustration of a stick person underneath the second “o” of the word “Google,” and the logo jokingly depicted the company’s founders as being “out of office.”
Later, in 2000, Google invited Dennis Hwang, who was then an intern there but later rose to become Google’s doodle artist, to create a doodle for Bastille Day. The doodle was warmly appreciated by users. Since then, Google started coming out with doodles. More than 5,000 doodles have been created so far by the illustrators and engineers on the Google team.
