The first Google Doodle, 20 years ago, said the founders of the company were heading to Burning Man.
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It's been 20 years since the first Google Doodle appeared on the company's home page, and the Web giant is marking the occasion with a memorable journey.
The first Doodle appeared in 1998, when Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin decided to usurp the traditional "out of office" sign by placing the Burning Man logo on the second "O" of the company logo. . the annual arts festival in the Nevada desert.
Since then, the idea of adding colorful graphics to the Google logo to highlight people, events, holidays and anniversaries has taken off, generating its own success with Internet users. They celebrated Anniversary of Pac-Man , Anniversary of Copernicus , Mothers' Day and the world Cup , while reminding us Real World Heroes Less Known .
"When the doodles were first created, no one had anticipated their popularity and integrity in the face of the Google search experience," recalls a Doodle business history. "Nowadays, many users are eagerly anticipating the release of each new doodle and some even collect them."
Over the last two decades, Doodle team artists have created thousands of Doodles for countries around the world. The Doodles themselves evolved from the simple turkey clip art used in 1998 in the Doodle Thanksgiving Day to include variations of illustrated, animated and interactive games of the company logo. Google even saw a Doodle VR nominated for an Emmy award.
To celebrate two decades of Doodles, Google revisits 20 notable examples in a slideshow. (For many others over the years, check out the CNET Doodle section.)
First Doodle, from 1998: Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the founders of Google, have hung this message on their young website as a message of absence from the office while they were at Burning Man.
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From May 2000: Five Doodles shows extraterrestrials meeting the Google logo and then transporting them to Mars (series 1, 2, 3, 4, 5).
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Beginning in 2000: Page and Brin asked Dennis Hwang, a trainee at the time, to create a Doodle to commemorate July 14th. It was so well received that Hwang was named Google's first Doodler leader, and Doodles began appearing regularly on the Google homepage.
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From Halloween 2000: Google's first animated Doodle, it featured two pumpkins instead of the "O" in Google and a scary spider hanging from the L.
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As of 2010: Google's first interactive game, celebrating the 30th anniversary of Pac-Man, included original game logic, graphics, sounds and even original bugs.
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As of 2011: Google's first live Doodle celebrated the 122nd birthday of Charlie Chaplin. He has featured appearances from the entire Doodle team and was recorded in Niles, California, on the same stage where many Chaplin's silent films were shot.
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Starting in 2012: Google's first slide show, Doodle, celebrating the 200th anniversary of Grimm's tales, featured a modern version of "Little Red Riding Hood", with an alternative ending.
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As of 2011: the first open source code Doodle has honored the 60th anniversary of the first publication of sci-fi writer Stanisław Lem. It was the first time that the code behind a Doodle was open source, allowing the public to access the code and see how the Doodle was built.
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From 2013: The first Google Doodle with a piano celebrates the 151st birthday of Claude Debussy. Panoramic at night in an urban landscape of the 1800s, the Doodle presents lights, puffs of smoke and sparkling stars perfectly synchronized with the music of Debussy.
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From 2012: Google's first organic Doodle marked Earth Day with a rooftop camera showing a Google garden taking on its colorful form.
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Starting in 2016: Google's first animated film, Doodle, marks the 117th anniversary of filmmaker and animator Lotte Reiniger. Replicating his style, the Doodle team has painstakingly cut out thousands of paper silhouettes and has slightly displaced them for each image.
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From 2018: Google's first Doodle with a poem narrated pays tribute to the 90th birthday of Maya Angelou. In this video, Doodle, the iconic poem of Angel "Still I Rise" is narrated by Alicia Keys, Martina McBride, Oprah Winfrey and even the son of the author, Guy Johnson.
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From 2018: Google's first VR / 360 Doodle celebrates the life of the pioneer of the French illusionist and director Georges Méliès. Doodle, this VR / 360 video nominated for the Emmy Awards, tells the story of a Méliès character and his adventures on a virtual set.
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From 2009: Google's first Doodle of the same day highlights the discovery of water on the moon. Google says, "The scribble artist Jennifer Horn was so inspired by an article that she read about discovering the water on the moon that she 's going to see. Doodle was immediately put on the Doodle to commemorate this event – the Doodle was completed in about four hours – holds the record for the fastest Doodle launch ever. "
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As of 2014: Most people participating in a Doodle marked International Women's Day and had more than 100 inspiring women from around the world, such as Russian actress, actress and singer Nonna Grishaeva; Isadora Faber, Brazilian activist of education aged 14; The pioneer of Nigerian agriculture, Foluso Olaniyan, and many others.
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Starting in 2017: The largest number of partners involved in a Doodle marked the 44th anniversary of the birth of hip-hop. With the help of seven creative partners and nine pioneers of hip-hop, the Doodle offered a tutorial on how to be a virtual DJ on a pair of interactive decks and allow you to mix samples legendary breakbeats.
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From 2017: The Doodle, with the longest production time, celebrated the life of the Mexican-American musician, fashion icon, entrepreneur, philanthropist and international superstar Selena Quintanilla. The Doodle music video, illustrating Selena's rise from the childhood phenomenon to musical power, took 18 months to produce.
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As of 2005: 11-year-old Lisa Wainaina shot the first winner of Google's Google Doodle 4 contest, The Day of the Child. The annual contest invites students to design their own Doodle, competing for a chance to win scholarships and technology packages for their schools.
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Starting in 2015: Google's first Doodle quiz marked Earth Day and helped people discover each other in the animal kingdom and learn fun facts about animals. Animal-loving celebrities such as Jane Goodall and Edward Norton filmed videos sharing their personal creatures and helped raise money for several animal charities.
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Starting in Halloween 2016, Google's best cat introduced Momo the Cat in a Halloween-themed game. The game included multiple levels, magic spells and a powerful wand to repel ghostly enemies. Momo also participated in the Halloween Doodles 2015 and 2017.
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