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- hakrzcode, on 10/12/2007, -2/+68Are java applets so ancient now, that today's generation does not recognise them?
hahaha - geminem, on 10/12/2007, -0/+54from the link Elohir posted above (just in case the page goes down or something)
Here are some more themes from google:
http://www.google.com/Easter/feature_easter.html (catch the eggs)
http://www.google.com/heart/heart01.html (click and hold on the heart)
http://www.google.com/heart/feature_cons.html
http://www.google.com/mentalplex/
And some "special" languages:
http://www.google.com/intl/xx-elmer/
http://www.google.com/intl/xx-bork/
http://www.google.com/intl/xx-klingon/
http://www.google.com/intl/xx-hacker/
http://www.google.com/intl/xx-piglatin/ - corevette, on 10/12/2007, -3/+51made in 2000
- oedenfield, on 10/12/2007, -10/+54weird
- subbzzz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+31Java Applet
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+33http://www.adelaider.com/google/ has a list of all this Google Stuff!
- Jens78, on 10/12/2007, -2/+25To shed some light on this, here's a comment from the author of the applet, which can be found on the homepage weiran posted:
"Around Feb 2, 2000, I happened to be visiting Google to give a talk. Sergei Brin asked whether I had any little 2D interactive animated characters. So I showed him the heart. He got all excited and said that they had to put that up on the Google site for Valentine's day. The people who worked for him were very nervous about that idea. They had never used Java in a Google page before; what would happen if it crashed everybody's machine?
But he was insistent, and fortunately I only used really safe early features of Java that run everywhere. So I reworked to visual design to fit in with Google's general aesthetic, and added some features. Notably, I added the feature that when the heart falls asleep it starts to dream "I love you" in twenty different languages.
This also made some people at Google nervous; what if the phrase in, say, Urdu accidentally had a more carnal and inappropriate meaning? So they vetted all the phrases, and the Google heart went up on Valentine's day."
source: http://mrl.nyu.edu/~perlin/experiments/heart/ - shosterman, on 10/12/2007, -2/+22....and them from 1960
http://fury.com/images/weblog/google_circa_1960.jpg - MrFusion, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11Hes also the guy who won an oscar for his work ont he visual effects for Tron. Also developed Perlin Noise. Quite a clever bloke, bit of an obsessive with bit shifts for perlin however, they make my head hurt.
- subbzzz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10Uh? Javascript is NOT Java..
This is the Java Code, which loads the Applet
‹applet code=Heart.class width=300 height=200›‹/applet› - schleppo, on 10/12/2007, -3/+11@ JorgeFl:
So with that logic, we shouldn't submit/digg any stories that weren't born yesterday? Age is not one of the of the bury criteria. - trampish, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9http://mrl.nyu.edu/~perlin/experiments/heart/
- weiran, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8The guy who created the applet: http://mrl.nyu.edu/~perlin/
He has a bunch of other cool applets on his site too. - apoorvs, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9This was way back in 2000
- macman06, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7@skyshock21
{applet
code=Heart.class
width=300
height=200}
{applet>}
duh - mapkinase, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8The page would benefit from some strategically placed cute ponies.
- PeterBassett, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7The applet was written by Ken Perlin, of "Perlin Noise" fame apparently. Cool.
- Elohir, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6This and more here..
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=2299 - PathDaemon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3"...that lets you search from it as well!"
What google page can't you search from? - iamdek, on 10/12/2007, -7/+10Take a look at this logo from 1999 :
http://www.google.com/logos/googlebeta.jpg - t3hX, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Worked fine for me on Safari. Strange.
- heli12, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4That's not secret. You could access it on Valintimes's Day 2000.
- tdowling, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Sorry, that misspelling really hurts my eyes for some reason. It's "Valentine's" as in St. Valentine's Day
- rideagain, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2didn't crash mine. FF 1.5.0.7 on OSX
- combatchuck, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3Wasn't this a tiny part of the story that was posted recently about ALL of the Google special pages? Lame, marked as spam.
- jonj, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1old school!
- Casestheorm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Hehe I love how reporting that it crashes equals being dugg down.
- subgeniusd, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1No problem with Opera. "Find" just goes right to silly love page.
Oops...wrong reply - Zyk0tiK, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1***** hidden, it's on the list of previous custom google headers, you click a bouncing heart which says "CLICK ME!" to get there, that's not hidden.
- BasouKazuma, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Yea, it almost crashed my firefox browser after i clicked "Find". But it just froze for 20 seconds and finally went to the page and unfroze.
- pacdude, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2I'm using Firefox on OSX and I saw it. No crash here!
- macewan, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1It causes a lockup on an iBook if using Flock. Neat find though.
- humbled, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Six years old. (Actually, it's almost 7 years old.) Get around much? ;)
- lyononline, on 10/11/2007, -1/+0And here is an other top 20:
http://www.google-stories.com/en/top-20-google-pages-youve-never-seen/ - Alpinesol, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Ken Perlin, (the guy who made the heart applet) is a professor at NYU who makes all kinds of cool visual applets. For more, check out his page: mrl.nyu.edu/~perlin
- muaddib420, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2switch to deer park build of firefox... worked fine for me lol
- uownedge, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2Cool! Google makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside :)
- myophp, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0LOL, that is crazy. Is that considered an easter egg?
- frankinla, on 10/12/2007, -6/+3YYYaaaaaawwwwwwwnnnnnnnnnn...........
Zzzzzzzzzzzzz... what? ... hmmm.... Zzzzzzzzzzzz - Odiwan, on 10/12/2007, -7/+3Ask a stupid question...
- sokz, on 10/12/2007, -8/+3That is the point.
- Dotnetsky, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1Yah "secret+google+xx" as well as "10 ways to xxx" or "the top 10 xxx" etc.
- jketterman, on 10/12/2007, -8/+3Instantly crashed Safari too... must be a bug with the applet.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -7/+2OMG!!!1123123!"§!"§!"SFSF§FSFE
Who cares? - macewan, on 10/12/2007, -8/+3It's Java
- lamestory, on 10/12/2007, -7/+2all 1200 people who dug this are flamers
- noouch, on 10/12/2007, -8/+2Ken Perlin FTW!
- Casestheorm, on 10/12/2007, -11/+5Woah. Instantly crashes Firefox on OS X while loading.
Awesome. - jm1234567890, on 10/12/2007, -10/+3Wasn't this a valentines day thing a long time ago?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -10/+2Marked as "Lame"
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