Did you wish Google a Happy Birthday today?Despite the company having officially filed for incorporation on September 4th, 1998, Google’s birthday has usually been celebrated a little over three weeks later, on September 27th.
Why is that? According to the company, the date chosen to celebrate Google’s birthday is subject to change “depending on when people feel like having cake”.
It seems as though September 27th continues to be the big day as the Google.com home page hails a new doodle featuring a birthday cake, balloons, & a few gifts. The clay styling of it actually reminds me of Wallace & Gromit, which Google featured a doodle for back in 2009.
Google has been entertaining the world with its doodles since the company launched back in 1998. The first Google doodle came about when founders Larry Page & Sergey Brin went to the Burning Man festival. They tweaked Google’s logo to incorporate a stick figure drawing of Burning Man; serving as a hint to website visitors that they were out of the office should anything go wrong in their absence.
To help celebrate Google’s 13th birthday, let’s take a walk down memory lane to see what doodles have previously decorated Google’s site on this special day:
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