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Happy Birthday Google!

Google, on Thursday, turns 14 and celebrates its birthday with a fascinating animated doodle.

The search engine giant has featured a chocolate cake as its birthday-theme doodle with 14 candles on it. The letters of Google's logo can be seen on cake.

The candles rearrange themselves just below the cake to form as tally marks and denote the number 14.

There has always been a debate about Google's birthday date. Till 2005, the search engine giant celebrated its birthday on September 7, three days later when it filed for incorporation on September 4, 1998.

However, in 2005 the search engine giant opted September 27 to celebrate its birthday.

Google was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin with the objective "to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful".

On clicking the Gogole doodle, it displays a list of its popular products. 

Published By:
Upadhi Kokra
CSE, IIIrd yr

AMAZING FACTS ABOUT THE INTERNET

• Google got its name from the mathematical figure googol, which denotes the number 'one followed by a hundred zeros'!
• Yahoo! derived its name from the word Yahoo coined by Jonathan Swift in Gulliver's Travels. A Yahoo is a person who is repulsive in appearance and action and is barely human!
• Researchers consider that the first search engine was Archie, created in 1990 by Alan Emtage, a student at McGill University in Montreal, Canada.
• Marc Andreessen founded Netscape. In 1993, he had already developed Mosaic, the first web browser with a GUI.
• Lurking is to read through mailing lists or news groups and get a feel of the topic before posting one's own messages.
• An anonymiser is a privacy service that allows a user to visit websites without allowing anyone to gather information about which sites they visit.
• 'Carnivore' is the Internet surveillance system developed by the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), who developed it to monitor the electronic transmissions of criminal suspects.
• The original URL of Yahoo! was http://akebono.stanford.edu/?
• The Electrohippies Collective is an international group of 'hacktivists' based in Oxfordshire, England.
• Did you know that Domain registration was free until an announcement by the National Science Foundation on 14th September, 1995!
• The Internet was initially called the 'Galactic Network' in memos written by J.C.R Licklider from MIT in 1962.
• Shokyu Ishiko, a doctorate in agriculture and chief priest of Daioh Temple in Kyoto has created an online virtual temple which will perform memorial services for lost information!
• Telnet is one of the oldest forms of Internet connections. Today, it is used primarily to access online databases.
• The morning after Internet Explorer 4 was released, certain mischievous Microsoft workers left a 10 by 12 foot letter 'e' and a balloon with the message, "We love you", on Netscape front lawn!
• If you were a resident of Tongo, a monarchy in the southwest Pacific, you could own domains as cool as 'mail.to' and 'head.to'!
• The first Internet worm was created by Robert T.Morris Jr and attacked more than 6000 Internet hosts!
• Domain names can be sold at really high prices! The most expensive domain name was 'business.com', which was bought by eCompanies for $7.5 million in 1999!
• The first ever ISP was CompuServe. It still exists, under AOL Time Warner.
• Ray Tomlinson, a scientist from Cambrige, introduced electronic mail in 1972. He used the @ to distinguish between the sender's name and the network name in the e-mail address.
• It took 13 years for television to reach 50 million users; It took the Internet less than 4 years!
• As of now, there are over 260 million people with Internet access worldwide!
• The average computer user blinks 7 times a minute!

Published By-
Tanya Kakar
CSE, IInd yr