A History of Google Doodles
Aug. 30, 1998
When employees left for the Burning Man festival, the Google logo became a cryptic BE BACK LATER sign. "There was no master plan for doodles at that point," says doodler-in-chief Ryan Germick.
Nov. 14, 2001
Google's first doodler, Dennis Hwang, gave the logo an Impressionist look for Claude Monet's birthday. 
March 14, 2003
The early doodles were often simple but playful, like this mustachioed drawing of Albert Einstein to celebrate his birthday.
April 25, 2003
The doodle that went live honoring DNA's discovery had an incorrect double helix until users spotted the error.
Aug. 13, 2003
Early doodles of famous folk tended to be simple, like this silhouette of Alfred Hitchcock.
March 30, 2005
The Van Gogh doodle appeared in an era when doodles began to get more ambitious, and it's one of the doodlers' best interpretations of a specific painter.
April 15, 2005
The Leonardo da Vinci doodle subtly encapsulated several of the artist's drawings and other works.
May 22, 2006
By 2006, portraits of figures like author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle were more ambitious.
April 22, 2007
A melting iceberg for Earth Day is one of many eco-minded doodles the team has created.
Jan. 28, 2008
Early on, Google used Lego blocks as casing for hard disks. Later it feted Lego's 50th anniversary.
May 16, 2008
Google beamed up its logo in a salute to the first laser, in one of many doodles lauding scientific discoveries.
March 2, 2009
The doodlers arranged classic Dr. Seuss characters, like the Cat in the Hat and the Grinch, to form the logo's letters.
Nov. 10, 2009
Classic Sesame Street characters celebrated 40 years of the show in the first Google- doodle photo shoot.
March 20, 2011
This doodle celebrated India's Holi festival, in which Hindus douse each other in dyes and colored water.
April 12, 2011
As the first man in space, Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin was remembered in this funky throwback doodle.
February 22, 2012
Google's undulating, animated doodle of an electromagnetic wave was an homage to Heinrich Rudolph Hertz. The German physicist was born on February 22, 1857 in Hamburg, and is most famous for proving the existence of electromagnetic waves—the frequency of which is now measured in his namesake unit of measurement, the Hertz (Hz).
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