By Tristan Greene
Tristan Greene is a sailor gleefully writing about living on dry land.
Google is turning 19 and we wanted to celebrate the worlds most popular search engine by showing off some of Alphabets family photos. We hopped in the Wayback Machine and took a look at Google.com from its birth to today.
The company was founded in 1998, and even though Aerosmiths I Dont Wanna Miss A Thing was atop the Billboard charts, there wasnt much to see:
The first real version of Google.com came later, and a new age of text-based-search dawned upon a population that would soon turn a silly company name into a verb. Seriously, go Google it.
Things looked pretty much the same for a few years until Google hit its awkward teen phase. Check out the ridiculous font and crazy punk-rock resolution in this image from 2003.
The above image has a weird symbol next to the colourful Google text and theres absolutely no possible way to determine what the tiny letters TM mean.
Things dont change a whole lot, Google.com-wise, for the next 7 years. Then out-of-nowhere, in 2010, it drops this bombshell of an update prepare your eyes for:
If that doesnt blow your mind out of your skull and into your lap: sit down for this updated Google.com design from a year in which the most Googled question beginning with what is was What is twerking?
If you took the time to look it up you would have come across this story that explains why the next image is from 2015, when this happened:
Google doesnt change often, here we are in 2017 and Google.com looks like this:
Were pretty sure that 19 years from now Google.com isnt going to look much different than it does at this moment. Minor tweaks, here and there, every few years, seems to be a recipe for success.
This article was previously published on The Next Web.
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