2011年2月8日星期二

Interactive Google Doodle Celebrates Jules Verne's Birthday

To celebrate the 183rd birthday of science fiction writer Jules Verne, the online world large currently launched a first-of-its-kind interactive Google doodle themed soon after the French writer's famed novel "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea."

On its homepage, it displays a Google logo resembling a collection of submarine portholes wanting out onto an underwater landscape. However the enjoyable genuinely begins after you click on on the lever on the appropriate of your nautical-looking logo.

As you "pull" the lever down, the doodle normally requires you on the virtual voyage on the bottom of the ocean, providing you with glimpses of starfish, octopi, coral and also a handful of other deep sea dazzlers.

When you click on to the logo it requires you to (shock!) a Google search results web page for Jules Verne.

Some sci-fi fans call Verne the "father of science fiction," though other individuals argue the title belongs to H.G. Wells. Amongst his contributions for the genre are "Journey for the Middle in the World" and "Around the world in eighty Days."

"Twenty Thousand Leagues Beneath the Sea" recounts the underwater journey of Captain Nemo and his submarine, The Nautilus.

Initial Google Doodle Posted in 1998

Google posted its first doodle in 1998 and unveiled its very first animated doodle in 2010 to celebrate the birthday of Sir Isaac Newton (it confirmed an apple falling from a tree). As time passes, its doodles have become far more and more sophisticated.

To celebrate the 30th anniversary with the popular arcade game Pac-Man very last 12 months, Google launched a logo that doubled as a game Web customers could play straight from Google's homepage.

Other common Google doodles have acknowledged author H.G. Wells, the Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and also the changing seasons.

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