Although Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin first registered the google.com domain in 1997, they didn’t officially incorporate Google, the company, until the following year. The company’s official birthday is September 27, 1998, which is when Google first launched its webpage.
In the 20 years of its existence, Google has become a massive part of our culture – for better and for worse Google. The company has also changed a lot – while the primary colours in the logo and the search engine’s name have stayed the same, the company has added a ton of new products, including Gmail, the world’s most popular webmail product, and Android, which powers most of the world’s smartphones.
Here is what Google looked like when it first launched:
