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Google Doodle celebrates physicist Joseph Plateau, whose invention led to cinema

Google on Monday is celebrating the 218th birthday of Belgian physicist Joseph Antoine Plateau with a Doodle that highlights his invention, the phénakistiscope, which created the illusion of a moving …
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Google: The Story Behind the Search Engine’s Invention

Google was the brainchild of two graduate students at Stanford University, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, who wanted to find a better way to help people search for information on the Internet.
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Google celebrates invention of internet, while creator draws more cynical view

Google on Tuesday celebrated the 30th anniversary of the World Wide Web with a unique Google Doodle, while the creator of the internet, Tim Berners-Lee, lamented the direction it has taken over the ye…
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