The Asian Age

GOOGLE DOODLE WENT TO TOWN RIDING ON TECHNOLOGY

- ARJUN R. SHANKAR

Google Doodle celebrated the birth anniversar­y of renowned German composer Johann Sebastian Bach with its firstever AI-powered doodle. With this, users can generate their own custom tunes and share them online. Let’s glimpse through Google doodle history.

1 Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin played with the corporate logo to indicate that they were headed to this festival — it was their “out of office” message for Google users. With this, the idea of creatively altering the company logo was born and the first Google Doodle was created. The founders’ attended which festival in 1998?

2 This was Google’s first live-action Doodle. It had a short film featuring appearance­s from the entire Doodle team to celebrate a person’s 122nd birthday. Doodler Mike Dutton played the lead role. It was recorded in Niles, California on the same place where many of his legendary things were made. It was a tribute to whom?

3 This Doodle panned across an 1800’s cityscape at night, and relied on a bit of technologi­cal ingenuity to perfectly time lights, smoke puffs and star twinkles. This was the first Doodle animated via piano on the 151st birthday of this legendary French composer seen as the first Impression­ist composer. Identify the composer. 4 It was the first Doodle with a narrated poem of this American poet, singer, and civil rights activists 90th birthday. In this, people inspired by her life and legacy — including Alicia Keys, Oprah Winfrey and even the author’s son recites the iconic poem “Still I Rise.” Identify.

5 This totally scientific quiz helped people discover themselves in the animal kingdom and learn fun animal facts in the process. Animal-loving celebritie­s like Jane Goodall and Edward Norton filmed videos sharing their personal critters and helped raise money for several animal charities. It was the first ever ‘Doodle Quiz’ commemorat­ing which day?

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