A History of Google Doodles

A History of Google Doodles
Google

Aug. 30, 1998
When employees left for the Burning Man festival, the Google logo became a cryptic BE BACK LATER sign. "There was no master plan for doodles at that point," says doodler-in-chief Ryan Germick.

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