Braille’s birthday

Wednesday, Jan 4th
By charukesi

Of all that google has done so far, this I think is the best…

braille

Hover over the logo on google and it says Happy Birthday Louis Braille!

And here is a small piece I found – on google of course – on Louis Braille…

9 Responses to “ Braille’s birthday ”

  1. Shruthi on Wednesday, Jan 4th at 17.00

    Both the logo, and the story that you linked to, thrilled me to bits. Thanks a ton!

  2. Aditya on Wednesday, Jan 4th at 20.51

    There is a reason Google is as well-regarded as it is. So simple, therefore effective.

  3. gupta on Thursday, Jan 5th at 02.45

    Nice to see a blog bout this.And I did look up the braille alphabets and spotted all the characters but could not understand why there is a dot at the beginning.Any insights?

  4. arun on Thursday, Jan 5th at 18.57

    i thought it is ‘google’ in braille.

  5. gupta on Thursday, Jan 5th at 19.49

    Yes it is, but there is a dot preceding the 4-square pattern that represents the G of google and that was what I was referring to.

  6. charukesi on Thursday, Jan 5th at 19.55

    Shruthi, you are welcome :) I loved it the moment I saw it on google…

    Adity, yup, simple and effective…

    gupta, Arun, sorry, I have no clue… gupta, I have not seen braille alphabets – where did you look them up?

  7. Mangesh on Friday, Jan 6th at 03.23

    Maybe the dot at the start means capital ‘G’. Just a guess…

  8. gupta on Friday, Jan 6th at 20.22

    This is where I found those alphabets.
    http://www.omniglot.com/writing/braille.htm
    Mangesh’s guess is on the dot (he he).It does represent a capital G!!

  9. charukesi on Sunday, Jan 8th at 12.04

    great, now we have it all sorted out :) )
    and gupta, thanks for the link. checking it out….