Google celebrates 11th birthday (and other Google artwork)

[Ajit Basrur]

Google.com has a new doodle today and it highlights the point that Google is now 11 years old.

The logo of the Google spells Goog11e today to celebrate the event.

 

[Marc]

HG Wells

Here's from a few weeks back - HG Wells 'War of the Worlds'.

 

[Jim Wynne]

Re: Google celebrates 11th birthday

Google.com has a new doodle today and it highlights the point that Google is now 11 years old.

The logo of the Google spells Goog11e today to celebrate the event.

Wow, I didn't even send a card.

This made me think of this recent thread: Immortality Only 20 Years Away Says Scientist. In 1968, twenty years before Google, there wasn't even an Internet and its quaint predecessor, Arpanet, was still a year away. From the linked Wikipedia article:

By mid-1968, a complete plan had been prepared, and after approval at ARPA, a Request for Quotation (RFQ) was sent to 140 potential bidders. Most regarded the proposal as outlandish, and only 12 companies submitted bids, of which only four were regarded as in the top rank. By the end of the year, the field had been narrowed to two, and after negotiations, a final choice was made, and the contract was awarded to BBN Technologies on 7 April 1969.

(My emphasis)
So twenty years before Google, even a rudimentary wide-area network was considered "outlandish" by companies that could have been in on the proverbial ground floor. BBN Technologies is still in business. I wonder how many of those other 139 companies are.

The future ain't what it used to be.

 

[amanbhai]

Re: Google celebrates 11th birthday

how come i did not notice it.

 

[Marc]

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

Here's Today's:

Mohandas_Karamchand_Gandhi

 

[Jim Wynne]

Today the Google logo on the Google homepage is represented by a bar code symbol in recognition of the 57th anniversary of the first bar code patent.

 

[Marc]

Google celebrates 57th aniversary of the barcode

 

[Scott Catron]

They're archived: http://www.google.com/logos/

 

[Marc]

WoW! The do logos a lot more often than I realized.

 

[Ajit Basrur]

New Google logo - Vancouver 2010