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The old Google logo is about as the old as the internet, having gone through a few revisions it was still a little rough around their edges.

The new logo is a nice overdue improvement (in my opinion): just check out that nice subtle drop shadow, minimal bevelling and bright, web 2.0ish colors.

Also, If you try to save their logo on the search results page.. you will find that it is now part of a large sprite. Nice.

On this date (March 15th) way back in 1985, the world’s first dot-com domain started up. Symbolics Computer Company launched Symbolics.com, which made them the lucky number 1!!

“Nearly 200,000,000 registrations later, the Internet thrives as the world’s network for entertainment and business”
- Aron Meystedt, the site’s owner, on Monday, the 25th anniversary of the dot-com URL.

Celebrate 25 Years here

Technology still manages to blow my mind each and everyday. Picture researcher Rachel Young of Ossett, England, took just 15 hours on Google Earth, to find images representing all 26 letters of the alphabet.

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