Today in History: Birthday of the Google internet search engine

Google is turning 17! It seems like such a gigantic company should be much older, but it wasn't even two decades ago that the very first iteration of today's most used search engine went online. For this occasion Goole shared some images that show the team's humble beginning, where they had to work with what was available, which also meant building a server out of lego blocks.

This is the very first "office" for the company, which at the time was just Larry Page and Sergey Brin's dorm rooms at Stanford.

Google went through a number of redesigns for its logo and homepage, which follow the concept of simplicity and ease of use. While still a pretty simple layout, the original website did not have nearly such a clean look as the one we are used to see today. Here is the very first Google homepage, when it was still in beta mode:

Originally, Google's birthday was actually on September 7, which is the day when the company was incorporated, but since 2005 they changed the date to September 27 to make it coincide with the announcement of the record number of pages that the search engine was indexing.

Check out this gallery with some of Google's latest projects:

Google kept growing exponentially through the years, until in 2015 it became part of Alphabet and will continue to impress the world by mastering the digital environment and creating incredible new technologies that are reshaping the way we communicate, interact and live.

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