# Google Celebrates Jules Verne's Birthday! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 8, 2011, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-celebrates-jules-vernes-birthday/570645 "2011-02-08T13:48:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2011, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-celebrates-jules-vernes-birthday/570645/1 "2011-02-08T13:48:43Z")
[http://www.nydailynews.com/tech\_guide/2011/02/08/2011-02-08\_google\_logo\_celebrates\_jules\_vernes\_birthday.html](http://www.nydailynews.com/tech_guide/2011/02/08/2011-02-08_google_logo_celebrates_jules_vernes_birthday.html) If you go to their main page, there’s a series of portholes. If you adjust the lever, you can go up or down, or cant forward or backward > **[Google](https://www.google.com/)** > > Search the world's information, including webpages, images, videos and more. Google has many special features to help you find exactly what you're looking for. I’m a huge Verne geek. This is great. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2011, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-celebrates-jules-vernes-birthday/570645/2 "2011-02-08T14:29:44Z")
I notice that one commenter screwed up, though: > [@](#): > > “Using CSS3 (and with help from our resident tech wizards Marcin Wichary and Kris Hom), the doodle enables anyone to navigate the Nautilus down (nearly) 20,000 leagues with the simple pull of a lever,” Google doodler Jennifer Horn wrote in a blog post. “And for those using devices with built-in accelerometers and the latest versions of Google Chrome or Firefox, it’s even simpler—just tilt your device in the direction you want to explore and the Nautilus will follow.” > **[Interactive '20,000 Leagues' Google Doodle Honors Jules Verne's Birthday](https://www.pcmag.com/archive/interactive-20000-leagues-google-doodle-honors-jules-vernes-birthday-260317)** > > In honor of author Jules Verne's 183rd birthday, Google on Tuesday added an interactive doodle to its homepage that allows visitors to navigate underwater scenes straight out of "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea." A League is about 3 miles, so 20,000 Leagues would be 60,000 miles down, which is absurd. As we’ve discussed endlessly on this board, the title means “20,000 Leagues traveled while under water”, not 20,000 Leagues straight down. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2011, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-celebrates-jules-vernes-birthday/570645/3 "2011-02-08T14:36:39Z")
And watch the dials on the left-looks like the middle is a depth gauge, the bottom is a compass but the top one doesn’t seem to do anything. ---
**Author:** ![Lare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/53a042/32.png) [@Lare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lare)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2011, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-celebrates-jules-vernes-birthday/570645/4 "2011-02-08T14:43:26Z")
Yeah, the top one looks (to me) like it would show incline but maybe they ran out of coding time. ---
**Author:** ![xanthous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/53a042/32.png) [@xanthous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xanthous)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2011, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-celebrates-jules-vernes-birthday/570645/5 "2011-02-08T14:49:56Z")
It’s probably my favorite Google page ever. and p.s. if you dive straight down to the bottom, the “google portholes” line up with “google coral”- I’m in love! ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2011, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-celebrates-jules-vernes-birthday/570645/6 "2011-02-08T17:15:36Z")
You can also control the “sub” using the up, down, right, and left keys on your keyboard, instead using your mouse to “grab” the control lever on the right. ---
**Author:** ![randwill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a3d4f5/32.png) [@randwill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/randwill)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2011, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-celebrates-jules-vernes-birthday/570645/7 "2011-02-08T17:36:21Z")
Coincidentally, Bing is also underwater with fish today. ---
**Author:** ![SpoilerVirgin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@SpoilerVirgin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpoilerVirgin)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2011, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-celebrates-jules-vernes-birthday/570645/8 "2011-02-08T17:42:27Z")
Well that was fun, but now I am seriously motion sick (not kidding at all :() ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2011, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-celebrates-jules-vernes-birthday/570645/9 "2011-02-08T18:32:52Z")
You can also click the little arrows at the end of each of the four directions and control it that way ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2011, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-celebrates-jules-vernes-birthday/570645/10 "2011-02-09T16:15:56Z")
Any way to see this now? It isn’t on their Logos page as far as I can tell. ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2011, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-celebrates-jules-vernes-birthday/570645/11 "2011-02-09T16:29:08Z")
There’s a version of it here: [http://www.google.com/logos/verne\_hd.html](http://www.google.com/logos/verne_hd.html) ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2011, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-celebrates-jules-vernes-birthday/570645/12 "2011-02-09T17:25:54Z")
I saw this two days ago and showed it to my daughter. Ten minutes later, this is what her Facebook status looks like: > [@](#): > > THERE’S NARWHALS ON GOOGLE!!! 😮 GO! GO! GO! GO RIGHT NOW AND USE THE LITTLE JOYSTICK THINGY AND DIVE!!! YOU’LL SEE 'EM!!! :))))))) FREAKING NARWHALS!!! Teenagers can be so cute when they get excited. ---
**Author:** ![xanthous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/53a042/32.png) [@xanthous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xanthous)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2011, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-celebrates-jules-vernes-birthday/570645/13 "2011-02-09T19:36:26Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > I saw this two days ago and showed it to my daughter. Ten minutes later, this is what her Facebook status looks like:Teenagers can be so cute when they get excited. That, like, totally made my day. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a9a28c/32.png) [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oslo_Ostragoth)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2011, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-celebrates-jules-vernes-birthday/570645/14 "2011-02-10T06:14:22Z")
> [@Baron\_Greenback](#): > > There’s a version of it here: > > [http://www.google.com/logos/verne\_hd.html](http://www.google.com/logos/verne_hd.html) Thanks for this and for the OP - I had no idea what was going on.