Google celebrates 23rd birthday with a smiling chocolate cake doodle

Web giant Google is celebrating its 23rd birthday on September 27th and marked the day with an animated Google doodle for itself, which is a chocolate frosted cake, a flaming candle the name of the company covered in rainbow sprinkles. 

The search engine, which is now known all around the world, kicked off as a small-scale project by two young students in the United States, Larry Page and Sergey Brin. 

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In 1997, the two students at Stanford University created the search engine sitting in their dorm rooms, jumping from one prototype to another. The web-based platform was officially born in 1998 and was tagged as Google Inc.

In the Google doodle explanation, the tech giant said that the very first servers of the company were “housed in a cabinet built out of toy blocks” and compared it to today’s situation, where they are placed “in more than 20 data centers globally” in order to complete “its mission of making the world’s information accessible to everyone remains the same.”

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The latest ‘Google.com’ homepage Doodle — a tradition that started in August 1998 to celebrate the Burning Man festival, days before the company was even founded — features the letters of ‘Google’ covered in chocolate frosting and sprinkles.

The animated doodle contains a cake with two layers, of which the top one resembles and acts like a top hat. On top of the cake is a flickering candle, which also represents the letter ‘L’ in Google. An animated arm reaches out of the cake after a few moments and greets the user with a tip of the hat.