Have you ever wondered about those little cartoons that appear on Google every once and awhile? Well, they are called 'Google Doodles' and the image you see here is the first one ever posted to Google (the founders put it up because they were attending Burning Man).
If you would like to find out more about them Google Blog has the lowdown on them:
My name is Dennis, and I'm the guy who draws the Google doodles. But the doodle tradition started here before I did. The first doodle was produced by (who else?) Larry and Sergey, who, when they attended the Burning Man festival in summer 1999, put a little stick figure on the home page logo in case the site crashed and someone wanted to know why nobody was answering the phone. By the time I began an internship here in the summer of 2000, the company was producing doodles on a regular basis. At the time I was a Stanford undergrad majoring in art and computer science, and, although I hadn't been hired to do anything remotely related to logo design, I eventually stumbled into my first doodle gig (Bastille Day, July 2000, for which I did a fairly boring flag motif).
And if you aren't that interested in the story behind the Google Doodles, but you would like to see them all, check out this page.
