Google turns 25: A look at first ever Google Doodle, story behind it

Google is one of the most popular tech companies in the world and most of the people who have used the internet even once, are aware of Google Search. Google is the world’s most used search engine and it has been on the top since the last couple of decades. Over the years, Google has evolved and gone through several major changes but its key functionality remained the same. Google is now officially 25 years old and the company is celebrating its 25th birthday on (September 27) with a special Google Doodle that reflects on all the previous logos of the company. Google Doodle is a special way of marking any occasion and it also educates millions of users across the globe about that special day. As Google celebrates its 25th birthday, let’s have a look at the first ever Google Doodle released by the company.

Even before Google was incorporated, its founders Larry and Sergey got the idea of Google Doodle. In 1998, the founders played with the corporate logo to indicate their attendance at the Burning Man festival in the Nevada desert. They placed a stick figure drawing behind the 2nd "o" in the word, Google, and the revised logo was intended as a comical message to Google users that the founders were "out of office". While the first doodle was relatively simple, the idea of decorating the company logo to celebrate notable events was born.

Two years later in 2000, Larry and Sergey asked current webmaster Dennis Hwang, an intern at the time, to produce a doodle for Bastille Day. It was so well received by our users that Dennis was appointed Google's chief doodler and doodles started showing up more and more regularly on the Google homepage.

Over time, the demand for doodles has risen and the team has created over 5,000 doodles for our homepages around the world.