MightyPinecone: I for one welcome our AI overlord. Humanity is doomed, long live artificial life! :D

tinyE: Tragic thing is I really used to love Google, and yes I still use it, but at some point it seemed to become self aware, and now I sit in quiet terror waiting for it to launch it's missiles.

tinyE: ...

Tragic thing is I really used to love Google ...

amrit9037: Now she is of legal age.

Prah: Google Search launched on September 15, 1997, which was 19 years ago...

The company on the other hand is 18 years old, but not today (September 4, 1998).

WBGhiro: Well now that you mention t, those two o's remind me of something...

Goodaltgamer: In the beginning
the Internet was without form
and void
But the sun shone upon the sleeping Internet
and deep inside the brittle network
massive forces waited to be unleashed
The users parted
and great ideas were formed
the users shifted, holy grails arose
flame wars spawned massive tidal waves
Volcanoes erupted
and spewed forth fiery comments
and charged the atmosphere
with strange gases
into this swirling maelstrom
of Fire and Air and Water
the first stirrings of Life appeared
The Terminator

OK, anyone know the original? ;)

muntdefems: It's even more complicated than that:
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/when-is-googles-birthday-18th-doodle-today-a7331271.html

tinyE: There has been a lot of fighting in here about threads being erroneously downrepped and deleted. I decided we needed to put an end to this fighting and make a thread all of us can agree should be downrepped and deleted. :D