Google Turns 12: Happy Birthday Google!
Posted on 28. Sep, 2010 by Dahlia Lithwick in Internet
Google has just celebrated its 12 years yesterday Monday with a birthday cake doodle created by Wayne Thiebaud, an American artist known for his paintings of cakes and pastries.
Google tweeted:”Our thanks to Wayne Thiebaud for helping us celebrate our 12th bday with a lovely doodle!”
It is still unclear why Google chooses to celebrate its birthday on September 27 instead of any days in its history. Google filed for incorporation on September 4, 1998 in California. The founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, set up a Silicon Valley garage and hired their first employee on September 21 of the same year.
From that time on, Google has grown rapidly from a search engine into a tech giant that provides a variety of web-based services, from e-mails to calendars to internet phone calling to TV.
Now, there is an increasing number of smartphones which run using Google’s popular Android operating system.