h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

From another part of the world: http://youtu.be/OfufT0qkwCE

That's the style I remember from the film _The Year of Living Dangerously_ staring Mel Gibson (pre-drunken, bigoted troll) and Linda Hunt.

Animated Juno Doodle:

http://www.google.com/doodles/juno-reaches-jupiter

2016 doodle fruit games.

Free mobile games on the Google app.

https://www.google.co.uk/

358th anniversary of Tea in the UK..

Google's doodle in Mexico and other countries are celebrating Rodolfo Guzmán Huerta (El Santo)’s 99th Birthday

http://www.google.com/doodles/rodolfo-guzman-huerta-el-santos-99th-birthday

Here's a direct link to the tea doodle for posterity (and those outside the UK. http://www.google.com/doodles/358th-anniversary-of-tea-in-the-uk

That beats the Mexican wrestlers, hands-down.

Doodle is old enough to vote. (but can't drink in pubs.)

http://g.co/doodle/vhxjhz

Google is 18. On first reading, I can't find a date for the first doodle. I suppose you'd just have to scroll back to the beginning...

For what it's worth, this thread kicked off in Feb 2011.

I was somewhat mistaken. The Google Doodle is actually older, it's 20 (and still can't drink in pubs!)


The Doodle started off as 3D lettering on its side and wonky angles. This logo was nicknamed "Backrub" and lasted just until '98.

http://gizmodo.com/the-evolution-of-googles-iconic-logo-1582297667

The company was founded that year, on 4 September, not 27 September. They registered the company on the 17th.

Google just arbitrarily chose the 27th as their birthday.

http://mashable.com/2016/09/27/google-18th-birthday/#_XzZ0pBpIsqg




(And, sure, in the UK, Google could drink in pubs, but Google is a US company where the legal drinking age is 21, so it still can't drink in pubs here.) http://youtu.be/Yo9_aBj1Z84?t=2m34s

Oh, and I just learned that the first use of "google" as a verb on TV was on Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/06/the-first-use-of-the-verb-to-google-on-television-buffy-the-vampire-slayer/373599/

The inventor of the Ballpoint Pen, Ladislao Biro, is celebrated today:

http://www.google.com/doodles/ladislao-jose-biros-117th-birthday

Should have added a few of these:

And he ruined handwriting. (According to this author)

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/08/ballpoint-pens-object-lesson-history-handwriting/402205/

I've learned something today! I never knew why ballpoint pens were called 'biros'. And I never thought to ask.

Heh... I learned this from _The Young Ones_.

http://youtu.be/k3z7oRCVuTY?t=57s

I meant that I never heard "biro" before I watched the Young Ones.


I also didn't know the origin until now. I later associated it with the Bic Biro.

100th anniversary of the completion of the Trans Siberian railway

http://www.google.com/doodles/100th-anniversary-of-completion-of-the-trans-siberian-railway

I would have missed that one. I'm outside its "reach". And a rather interesting reach it does have. The only two nations in the Americas that feature it today are Cuba and Columbia. But it also seems to be conspicuously absent in Eastern Europe as well.