Twenty-three years ago, two PhD students have introduced the idea of setting up a prototype of a 'large-scale search engine'. Today, on September 27, Google is celebrating its 23rd birthday today. The tech giant has marked the special occasion with an animated cake doodle.
In bio with the animated doodle, Google wrote, "Every day, there are billions of searches on Google in more than 150 languages around the globe, and while much has changed from the early days of Google, from its first server housed in a cabinet built out of toy blocks to its servers now being housed in more than 20 data centers globally, its mission of making the world’s information accessible to everyone remains the same."
In the adorable animated cake-themed doodle, the birthday candle denotes the letter 'L' in 'Google'.
The Birth
Originally, Google was founded on September 4, 1998. However, some reports suggest that the company had changed its birth date to September 27 in 2005 to make it coincide with the announcement of the record number of pages that the search engine was indexing.
As reported by The Economic Times, "in 1997, Sergey Brin, a Stanford University graduate student, was assigned to show Larry Page, who was considering to graduate from Stanford at the time, around campus. By the next year, the two co-founders got busy in building the search engine together in their dorm rooms. In 1998, the first prototype was developed and Google was officially born."