Google’s frequent Doodle homepages add a splash of sparkle to our web surfing.
Nice calendar reminder function, eh? Bet you didn’t know when Frank Lloyd
Wright’s birthday was either. More indispensable water cooler trivia.
Google has created 300 Doodles in the U.S since ‘98 when
their genesis was actually laziness and happenstance.
Their first Doodle displayed the Burning Man image, and told
users the site
would be running unattended, like an “out of office”
note. But the
Burning Man bloop sparked a revolution, or at least a habitual bit of
differentiation on the tabula rasa that is Google’s starkly simple home page.
Now Google creates many Doodles commemorating events like
the Venus transit, LEGO’s 50th anniversary, and Robert Moog’s
birthday – ya know, the guy who invented the electronic synthesizer.
Anyway, Google Doodles are fun, visual reminders about
events or random facts you can’t live without. Kinda like what Google gets you every second of every day,
right?
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