The latest mysterious Google doodle honors what would have been Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges’ 112th birthday. Aside from being a pioneer in the genre of magical realism, Borges also imagined some of the foundational concepts of the Internet, such as “hypertext,” long before the dawning of the digital age.
Borges’ short story, “The Garden of Forking Paths,” can be read as a metaphor for many things, including the entire universe, but the notion of forking paths is in line with the modern Web experience, with divergent paths leading users through a wild jungle of information.
The Borges doodle is the latest in a serious of scientific and cultural innovators to be honored by Google. This summer has also seen doodles for geneticist Gregor Mendel , mathematician Pierre de Fermat and guitar pioneer Les Paul.
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