01 October,2010 09:33 AM IST | | Agencies
Time flies even if you are a prehistoric cartoon caveman.
The Flintstones celebrated their 50th anniversary yesterday, and how fitting it was that the ancients' birthday should be marked by that icon of modernity, a tribute doodle on Google's homepage.
The doodle is one of the most colourful and well-disguised designs seen recently on the main site of the world's most popular search engine, which often marks anniversaries with special images on its home page.
The artwork features the Flintstones' vehicle and several of their huts, which are juxtaposed with a dinosaur and tree to spell the word Google.
The classic Hanna-Barbera animated series premiered September 30, 1960 and ran in primetime for six years.
Its main storyline was about a working class stone-age man's life with his family in the town of Bedrock, where animals powered modern machines such as a wooly mammoth functioning as a vacuum cleaner.
The series, in which Fred and Wilma Flintstone became the first TV couple ever to be seen in bed together, paving the way for other adult cartoons.
Flintstone's tech
Here are 10 of the wackiest contraptions shown in The Flintstones.
>Fred's pedal car
>The Bedrock Express
>The dino-crane
>The elephant water cooler
>The elephant tap
>The elephant vacuum cleaner
>The warthog garbage grinder
>The octopus dishwasher
>The lobster lawn mower
>The bird-powered cinematograph
Did you know?
In the demonstration pilot Fred and Wilma had the last name of Flagstone. The title of the show was then changed to The Gladstones.
