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1998 - Google doodles was born
In 1998, Google founders Larry and Sergey played with the corporate logo to indicate their attendance at the Burning Man festival in the Nevada desert. A stick figure drawing was placed behind the 2nd "o" in the word, Google and the revised logo was intended as a comical message to Google users that the founders were “out of office.” While the first doodle was relatively simple, the idea of decorating the company logo to celebrate notable events was well received by our users. -
2000 - Dennis Hwang becomes Google’s chief doodler
A year later in 2000, Larry and Sergey asked current webmaster Dennis Hwang, an intern at the time, to produce a doodle for Bastille Day. Pleased with the result, Dennis was then appointed Google’s chief doodler and doodles became a regular occurrence on the Google homepage. In the beginning, the doodles tended to celebrate largely visible holidays; nowadays, doodles represent a wide array of events and anniversaries from the Winter Games to the Mars Rover landing. -
2007 - Valentine's day
Valentine's day logo was created- the Google doodle featured a chocolate-dipped strawberry that combined the second "g" and the "l" as its green stem.[13] This design gave the appearance that the "l" was missing, thereby displaying "Googe".Google was criticized in 2007 for not featuring versions of the Google logo for American patriotic holidays such as Memorial Day and Veterans Day.[15] That year, Google featured a logo commemorating Veteran -
2009
Google unveiled a steady stream of Doodles in 2009, including one with Mahatma Gandhi's face on October 2, 2009, the birthday of Mahatma Gandhi, which is observed by the UN as the International Day for Non-Violence. -
2011
On Friday, April 15, 2011, Google sported the first video doodle, commemorating Charlie Chaplin's 122nd birthday.[21] This doodle was a black and white YouTube video that, when clicked upon, started playing before redirecting to the usual Google search featuring the doodle's special occasion. All parts in this short film were played by the Google doodle team, and special behind-the-scenes footage was to be found on the Google blog.
