[David]

From the FAQ page: "8) Your logo is upside down: Why is the light source obviously below the image? It looks quite unnatural...

The logo is simply a scan of my hand, from a flatbed scanner converted to black and white. The "back" in the picture is the scanner cover, and the shadows are from the scanner light."

But no image on the main page =( I really wish they'd archived that, too. (Says something about the necessity of making v1 look good. Of course, the web was a different place in '97.)

[jawee]

http://www.google.com/logos/backrub_small.jpg

Found at: http://www.google.com/logos/fan.html (scroll to the bottom and it has older official Google logos)

[toolate]

http://blogoscoped.com/files/google-backrub-2007.png full size for those that are interested.

[David]

Awesome! I should have known to google it... xD