Braille’s birthday

charukesi January 4th, 2006

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. # Shruthion 04 Jan 2006 at 17.00

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

  2. # Adityaon 04 Jan 2006 at 20.51

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

  3. # guptaon 05 Jan 2006 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. # arunon 05 Jan 2006 at 18.57

    i thought it is ‘google’ in braille.

  5. # guptaon 05 Jan 2006 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. # charukesion 05 Jan 2006 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. # Mangeshon 06 Jan 2006 at 03.23

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

  8. # guptaon 06 Jan 2006 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. # charukesion 08 Jan 2006 at 12.04

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