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A Pacman related interactive Google Doodle from 2010 will be shown to users searching for "google pacman" or "play pacman".. The American technology company Google has added Easter eggs into many of its products and services, such as Google Search, YouTube, and Android since the 2000s.
Google Books (previously known as Google Book Search, Google Print, and by its code-name Project Ocean) [1] is a service from Google that searches the full text of books and magazines that Google has scanned, converted to text using optical character recognition (OCR), and stored in its digital database. [2]
An engine known as the Chevrolet 409, a 409 cubic inch W-series V8. The song "409" by The Beach Boys, inspired by the above engine; HTTP status code for "Conflict" A Green Day song, "409 in Your Coffeemaker", included on their album 1,039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours; The area code for a part of eastern Texas; Venice has 409 bridges. [16]
Space exploration, as predicted in August 1958 by the science fiction magazine Imagination. Science fiction (sometimes shortened to SF or sci-fi) is a genre of speculative fiction, which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel universes, and extraterrestrial life.
H.G. Wells World Brain (1936–1938). The concept (although not so named) originated in 1785 with the Marquis de Condorcet, whose "jury theorem" states that if each member of a voting group is more likely than not to make a correct decision, the probability that the highest vote of the group is the correct decision increases with the number of members of the group. [20]
From top left, clockwise: The Hubble Space Telescope orbits the Earth after it was launched in 1990; American jets fly over burning oil fields in the 1991 Gulf War; the Oslo Accords on 13 September 1993; the World Wide Web gains massive popularity worldwide; Boris Yeltsin greets crowds after the failed August Coup, which leads to the dissolution of the Soviet Union on 26 December 1991; Dolly ...
The Watt steam engine, fuelled primarily by coal, propelled the Industrial Revolution in Britain. [ 58 ] In the mid-18th century a group of economic theorists, led by David Hume (1711–1776) [ 59 ] and Adam Smith (1723–1790), challenged fundamental mercantilist doctrines—such as the belief that the world's wealth remained constant and that ...