10 interesting facts that you did not know about Google. Part one

Translator's prologue

Hello Dear Habrovchane, I want to present to your attention the first part of an article telling about the little-known pages of the history of Google, the second part will include the remaining 7 facts. The text will meet my explanatory remarks, and accompanied by the characters "//".

Introduction

Google is not a traditional company. And we are not going to become one. Thus began the “letter from the founders” signed by Sergey Brin and Larry Page in the registration papers of the company in 2004. Despite ever-increasing commercial success since that time, Bryn and Paige kept their word.

Google is an unconventional company that is of great importance in our online
of life. It is admired by many, including us, but what’s really
going on Googleplex. And what interesting “facts” and information can be found in the relatively short history of the company?
_{// Googleplex - The headquarters of Google Inc., located in Silicon Valley.}
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In this article, we present you 10 fun facts about Google, so that you can satisfy your curiosity and escape from the cares of everyday life.

1. First Google Doodle

The changing Doodles logos on Google’s home page are well known to all. Millions of people will learn about this or that event, their anniversary. But did you know that the very first Doodle was conceived as a kind of message, “we are not in the office”

In 1998, Bryn and Page took the weekend to go to the “Burning Man” festival in Nevada. The image of a person in the logo design was made by the guys and added to the main page so that their users know that the guys have left the office and cannot fix technical problems and problems on the server.

2. The first Google server was made from LEGO

The first Google server was made from Lego when it was still just a research project known as “BackRub”. Stanford is currently showing the first Google servers since 1996. They were based on “enormous” 40 GB hard drives (less than the size of a modern iPod), which were shaped like Lego bricks.

Legend has it that the reason for Lego-shaped construction was that the guys from Google needed to easily expand the system, and cheaply place 10-gigabyte 4 Gigabyte hard drives, and the Lego method is good
suitable for these purposes. It is said that each of the primary colors of the bricks used there, each shade, formed the basis of the design of the Google logo, but we think that this is just a coincidence.

3. First Google Tweet.

The first Google Tweet in the history of the company , a message sent in January 2009, reads: “I am 01100110 01100101 01100101 01101100 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01101100 01110101 01100011 01101011 01111001 00001010”.

For those who do not own a binary code, a hint is a well-known phrase on the company's home page. Guess? Yes, it says: "I’m feeling lucky."

// PS _{I missed the second paragraph of the original article, it will be included in the second part of the translation. Thanks for attention.}