Google’s greatest occasion of the yr – I/O developer convention is immediately. CEO Sundar Pichai will take the stage at 10am PT (10:30 pm IST) to ship his keynote speech. At immediately’s occasion, the corporate is predicted to unveil its first foldable cellphone together with particulars of Android 14 working system. The tech big can be anticipated to launch Pixel 7a, Pixel pill and different {hardware} units on the occasion.
This yr’s I/O event marks the occasion’s fifteenth anniversary. Ever puzzled what Google I/O means and the way it bought its identify?
In a weblog put up, Google offers two potential explanations behind the identify. First is that the identify stands for “enter / output,” referencing the computational idea of interfacing between a pc system and the surface world. The second clarification you’ll see is that I/O stands for “innovation within the open,” which additionally traces up with the occasion properly.
Google within the weblog put up says that each origins are true, however there’s extra to the story. Digging deeper, the corporate says it held its first-ever developer convention, Geo Developer Day in Might 2006.
“The very first ‘I/O’ in 2007 wasn’t referred to as I/O in any respect,” says Lorin Platto, director of occasions and experiences operations and one of many unique I/O occasion organizers. “It was an occasion referred to as Google Developer Day, which we hosted on the San Jose Conference Middle with 1,000 tickets for builders.”
The occasion was centered round Google’s first publicly obtainable developer instrument, the Google Maps API, which launched the earlier yr.
“Flash ahead a yr and our suite of developer instruments had expanded considerably — and we wanted a much bigger occasion to characterize our merchandise and have interaction with our rising developer group. Thus, I/O was born,” the weblog put up additional states.
In 2008, the occasion moved to a much bigger venue — San Francisco’s Moscone Middle West — and with the transfer, bought its official identify. Initially, the identify I/O was really based mostly on one thing numerical: a googol, the eponymous quantity that lends our firm its identify.
“A googol is a one, adopted by 100 zeroes, in order that’s the place the I/O identify and emblem got here from. We simply took the primary one and 0, and we left off all the opposite zeroes. All of it goes again to Google,” says Lorin. “After which as we have been brainstorming, we began speaking about what that one and 0 might imply. That’s the place the ‘enter / output’ and ‘innovation within the open’ slogans got here from.”
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