Your Office Hole Puncher Just Got Its Own Adorable Google Doodle
Google is paying homage to a device that has no place in the digital world the hole puncher. Tuesday marks the 131st anniversary of the invention of the hole puncher, a workplace staple that makes organizing and binding paper quite simple. And in honor of the hole puncher's history, Google created an illustration of the device as a Google Doodle. "Today we celebrate 131 years of the hole puncher, an understated  but essential  artifact of German engineering," Google said in its description of the doodle. "As modern workplaces trek further into the digital frontier, this centuries-old tool remains largely, wonderfully, the same.", The doodle itself, which is featured on Google's homepage, includes the circular remnants of paper left after its punched into letters. A two-hole device then punches a piece of paper occupying the second "g" in "Google," then proceeds to smile and dance. The animation was created by Gerben Steenks, a doodle designer at Google. Read more Google Celebrates 19 Years of Search With This Interactive Doodle, The history of the hole puncher goes back to 1886 and Friedrich Soennecken, a German inventor who is also responsible for thinking up ring binder. And despite being created more than a century ago, the design of the hole punch hasn't changed too much, in that it involves a lever capable of punching through a thick stack of paper. According to Google, the company has made more than 2,000 doodles since they first started appearing on its homepage in 1998. Google now has a staff of illustrators and designers  called "doodlers"  who brainstorm and create Google doodles based around certain events, people and anniversaries.