Google Marks 28th Birthday with Nostalgic Doodle Looking Back on Humble Beginnings

Google celebrated its 28th birthday with a nostalgic Doodle that took users back to the company's humble beginnings. The animated homepage artwork featured an aesthetic inspired by Google's early-era logos from 1998, highlighting the vast evolution of the tech giant.

The story of Google began in 1996 when co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin were PhD students at Stanford University. They initially called their project 'BackRub' before registering the domain google.com in September 1997. The company was officially incorporated on September 4, 1998, with a landmark investment of $100,000 from Sun Microsystems co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim.

Since 2006, Google has consistently celebrated its anniversary on September 27, the date associated with a record-breaking announcement about the number of web pages indexed by its search engine. Over nearly three decades, Google has grown from a simple search engine into a broad digital ecosystem encompassing YouTube, Android, Gmail, Google Maps, and advanced AI systems such as Gemini under its parent company Alphabet Inc.