Today is Google's 22nd Birthday!

[Prometheus]

https://www.google.com/doodles/googles-22nd-birthday

The partnership between Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin traces its roots to the sunny campus of Stanford University. As graduate students, the pair set out to improve the way people interacted with the wealth of information on the World Wide Web. In 1998, Google was born, and the rest is history.
The now world-famous moniker is a play on a mathematical term that arose out of an unassuming stroll around the year 1920. While walking in the woods of New Jersey, American mathematician Edward Kasner asked his young nephew Milton Sirotta to help him choose a name for a mind-boggling number: a 1 followed by 100 zeros. Milton’s reply? A googol! The term gained widespread visibility twenty years later with its inclusion in a 1940 book Kasner co-authored called “Mathematics and the Imagination.”
In 2006, the word “Google” was officially added to the Oxford English Dictionary as a verb, so if you’d like to learn more about how big a googol really is, just Google it!

 

[Ash]

Happy Birthday Google! There is also a special discount code for items from the Google Store. 22% off using the code: GOOGLEBDAY22

 

[Page]

Only 22 years old? I thought it was more than that. Shame, I'm still older then google

 

[Ash]

Only 22 years old? I thought it was more than that. Shame, I'm still older then google

I didn't even realise that when I first read it. I assumed they would be older. I'm only a few months younger than Google!

 

[Demon_skeith]

22 years, damn, if only my parents bought their stock back in the day...

 

[duskpire]

I can see why they've been in business as long as they have. They still have the best search engine. Also wouldn't be surprised if they made a game console to compete with Microsoft and Sony.

 

[Ash]

A game console would be interesting. Not sure they can do it well enough to compete with the big boys though. Stadia has been a mess.

 

[duskpire]

Stadia has been a mess.

Yeah, that was a horrible idea. I don't know why they didn't come out with a box console that was like a PC. Alienware did it and it worked pretty well. They came out with a box console that allowed you to download games off of Steam. They were selling them at Wal-Mart for a little while.

 

[Ash]

This is the first time I'm hearing about this. Would have been pretty cool to check out.

It doesn't help that GeForce Now is doing a much better job than Google has with Stadia.

 

[Page]

I didn't even realise that when I first read it. I assumed they would be older. I'm only a few months younger than Google!

Well, WWW as the word we all know hasn't been that older or been around that long. if you think about it.