Run and crouch — and so on for 17 million years in a row. The history of the legendary Dinosaur Game

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There are many computer games with dinosaurs. But there is one special one: you don't need to buy it, you can play it on any device and, most importantly, without the Internet! We dive into IT paleontology and tell the story of the browser toy Dinosaur Game.



What is the essence of the game?
The dinosaur appears in the browser every time users lose their indonesia phone number library Internet connection. To keep them from getting bored while they reboot their router and reconnect to the Internet, Rex offers to play a game. Run across the desert, periodically jumping over cacti and dodging pterodactyls and comets.



You can run in the desert from anywhere in the world, even if there is no internet.

Google Chrome designer Sebastian Gabriel came up with the pixelated dinosaur in 2014. The project was called Project Bolan so that no one would guess what the team was working on during development. But music lovers still got to see a dinosaur Easter egg: Bolan is the surname of the lead singer of the British rock band T-Rex from the 1970s.



Dinosaur Game is not a simple toy, as it might seem at first glance. In fact, it is a cool tool that has become a real marker of Internet stability. Whenever the Network goes down, a dinosaur runs to the user's aid.

The game's creators estimate that users launch the game 270 million times a month. Most often, they come from Indonesia, Brazil, Mexico, and India. Coincidence or not, but according to Google's statistics, these