Tech giant, Google, celebrates the 23rd anniversary of its founding with an animated doodle birthday cake and candlelight burning atop the cake.
The search engine company was started by two Stanford Computer Science undergraduates, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, on September 27, 1998.
The two men who were 25 years old at the time they founded Google, no longer actively participate in the company’s day to day operations.
According to Google, it was a ‘chance encounter’ between the two computer scientists – Page and Brin, that changed the course of the Internet, with Google now becoming the biggest search engine in the world.
Page and Brin developed Google in 1997 in their dormitory at Stanford but was it was on September 27, 1998, that the company was officially launched.
Google explains the reason for the celebration in a blog post.
It says: “Every day, there are billions of searches on Google in more than 150 languages around the globe… From its first server housed in a cabinet built out of toy blocks to its servers now being housed in more than 20 data centres globally, its mission of making the world’s information accessible to everyone remains the same.”