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History of Google's logo and goodbye to Polaroid

ammon — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 16:55:51 +0000

Wired has a neat little article/slideshow depicting the process of designing the Google logo. It’s interesting to see the first design compared to the last (current) design, and how similar they are.

Along with this article, take a look at Google’s archive of past logos for holidays and other events. It might be worth a look into the different holidays and events that are portrayed by Google’s logo.

Also, on a sad note, a bit of technology fades into history. The Polaroid instant photos have been discontinued (over the course of the past two years). The thrill of an instant photo was one of my child hood memories. Something my children won’t have. Now we we’d have to truck along a printer to get the same instantaneousness.

History of Slashdot, parts 2 and 3

ammon — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 19:15:14 +0000

Slashdot posted part three of the their history today. I missed part 2, so here is the link to both.

History of Slashdot.org Part 2
History of Slashdot.org Part 3

Slashdot's history

ammon — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 22:06:49 +0000

Something I’ve wondered, and even dreamed of doing, has just been done. Slashdot is ten years old this year, and one of the creators has written a short history, part 1, of the creation.

http://meta.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/02/1553218&from=rss