Google Morse Code Logo – Daring and Brilliant
| Posted in Design, Google, Technology | Posted on 27-04-2009
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Millions of users in many countries were surprised by this confusing logo with Morse code which is being displayed today across all Google Homepages.
Some would argue that Google is brainless or doesn’t care about users because the logo is so confusing that some users thought there was something wrong with their internet connection and the logo didn’t load completely, some thought their new LCD screens are about to die. Some people also thought it was representing some block breaker game. Some Even thought it was Braille.
I would say, so far, This is the most Daring and Dashing Logo ever done for any occasion by any company on the Internet. Also biggest risk taken by any company to play with the Company Identity. I think it should be the best logo ever in the Top Official Google Logos.
What do you think?
I love it! I used Morse Code while in the US Coast Guard, 1957-61. It’s one of many skills I’ve acquired which are now obsolete. Old coders will understand the affection we have for the sound of Morse Code.
Mark Hammer
Lake Oswego, Oregon
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I LOVE it! AS an active ‘brass pounder’ ham, I immediately recognized it for what it is! Way to go –. — — — .-.. . .-.-.- -.-
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“Describing the Irish as a teeming sea of ignorant, dirty, overly fertile drunks, he ran for office on a platform of keeping America ‘pure.’”
“1836 saw his first of two campaigns to become Mayor of New York City. He ran for, and was apparently a fairly rabid spokesperson for, the Nativist party. This was a group of fairly despicable human beings. A bunch of racist, pro-slavery assholes, who were dead set against immigrants, especially the Jewish and the Irish. Morse himself appeared to especially hate Catholics. His campaign didn’t go all that well, which is likely a good thing. He only managed to get 1,550 votes the first time, and garnered a mere 100 the second time he ran, in 1841.”
He “hated” American Catholics and “would have denied citizenship to the foreign born (especially the Irish) and he wrote pamphlets abusing those who would abolish slavery”.
That’s right. He loved slavery and enslaving black people. He said it was “not a sin” in Christianity, and that slave owners were doing so for the “wisest purposes, benevolent and disciplinary”.
Sounds a bit like a 19th century version of the White Supremacists, only wearing smarter clothes and without the skinheads. He donated loads of money to these idiots.
So much for Google’s “Don’t be evil”.
He didn’t invent the telegraph anyway. And the “Morse” code used these days is not the same code that Morse invented. It is only called “Morse” code because it is based on it.
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