Google celebrates its 23rd anniversary with a doodle

Google celebrates today -September 27- its 23rd anniversary with an animated doodle of a birthday cake with its respective candle and the words of the search engine dipped in chocolate.

“It is said that a chance encounter can change the course of your life. In the case of Google, a chance meeting between two computer scientists changed the course of the Internet and the lives of millions “, it reads on the Google page.

In 1997, Sergey Brin, a Stanford University graduate student, was accidentally assigned to show the campus to Larry Page, who was considering for graduate school at the time. By the following year, the two co-founders of Google they were building a search engine together in their bedrooms and developing their first prototype.

In 1998, he was officially born Google Inc.

“Every day there are billions of searches on Google in more than 150 languages ​​around the world, and while a lot has changed since Google’s early days – from its first server housed in an enclosure built from toy blocks to its servers now housed in more than 20 data centers around the world. world – its mission to make the world’s information accessible to all remains the same “, reads the message that the search engine published on its page for the anniversary.