Few days back, as I switched on my computer and went on to the Google page, I saw yet another beautiful Google doodle – a lady with short cropped hair and wearing a round pair of specs, with something like a notepad in her hand.
I didn’t know who the lady in the doodle was, so I clicked on it, and realized she is Katsuko Saruhashi, who was one of the first female geochemists who worked on showing evidence of the dangerous radioactive elements present in seawater and in our atmosphere. It was her 98th birthday and hence Google Doodle decided to celebrate her in this beautiful way.
That maybe explains the blue water in the backdrop.
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Just a few weeks back, on International Women’s Day, I had also shared the beautiful stories Google Doodle had shared through their tiny tile stories.
Ever since then, I’ve really been wondering – who are these people who are creating these doodles? And when did it all begin?
So what is the Doodle all about in Google Doodle?
According to Google, doodles are the fun and sometimes entirely spontaneous changes that they decide to make in their regular Google logo to celebrate something special, such as a festival, a special holiday, an event, some anniversary, a person, something historical, and of course the lives of artists, scientists and pioneers.
When did it all start?
Did you know that the idea of Google Doodle was already in place even before the company actually incorporated? Apparently, the Google founders Larry and Sergey played around with the corporate logo and made a stick figure behind the second ‘o’ in the Google logo, when they had to attend the Burning Man festival and used it as a comical way to share the message that the founders were ‘out of office.’
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In 2000, the founders asked their intern Dennis Hwang to create a doodle for Bastille Day. The doodle was so appreciated by users that Dennis was appointed as Google’s chief doodler, and is the current webmaster.
More than 2000 doodles!
Till date, Google Doodle has come up with more than 2000 interesting doodles that have been shared on their homepages all over the world.
So the next time you switch on your machine and see another of these creations, even if you don’t want to check it out, just think of how it all started, with just a stick figure at the back of Google.
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