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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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The invention of Google before Google — a radical mail-order ‘Catalog’

Fifty years ago this month, a 29-year-old former army paratrooper flew back to his home in California from his father’s funeral in Illinois. As the nation’s heartland scrolled beneath his plane’s window, he jotted down ideas for a new business that would …
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