--- description: Google is celebrating the 131st anniversary of the invention of the hole puncher today with a Google Doodle illustration title: Your Office Hole Puncher Just Got Its Own Google Doodle image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb020cb6db7a661ad/6988e5aae76ad2d31d62fefa/google-doodle.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Business](/section/business/) ## Business Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Tech](/tag/time-section-tech/) ## Tech Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Your Office Hole Puncher Just Got Its Own Adorable Google Doodle by [Jennifer Calfas](/author/jennifer-calfas/) ## Jennifer Calfas Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Updated: Dec 13, 2023 12:21 AM CUTPublished: Nov 14, 2017 11:44 AM CUT  Google by [Jennifer Calfas](/author/jennifer-calfas/) ## Jennifer Calfas Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Updated: Dec 13, 2023 12:21 AM CUTPublished: Nov 14, 2017 11:44 AM CUT Google is paying homage to a device that has no place in the digital world: [the hole puncher](https://www.google.com/doodles/131st-anniversary-of-the-hole-puncher "undefined"). Tuesday marks the 131st anniversary of the invention of the hole puncher, a workplace staple that makes organizing and binding paper quite simple. And in honor of the hole puncher’s history, Google created an illustration of the device as a Google Doodle. “Today we celebrate 131 years of the hole puncher, an understated — but essential — artifact of German engineering,” Google said in [its description of the doodle](https://www.google.com/doodles/131st-anniversary-of-the-hole-puncher "undefined"). “As modern workplaces trek further into the digital frontier, this centuries-old tool remains largely, wonderfully, the same.” The doodle itself, which is featured on Google’s homepage, includes the circular remnants of paper left after its punched into letters. A two-hole device then punches a piece of paper occupying the second “g” in “Google,” then proceeds to smile and dance. The animation was created by Gerben Steenks, a doodle designer at Google. **Read more**: [Google Celebrates 19 Years of Search With This Interactive Doodle](http://time.com/4958564/google-doodle-google-earth-interactive/ "undefined") The history of the hole puncher goes back to 1886 and Friedrich Soennecken, a German inventor who is also responsible for thinking up ring binder. And despite being created more than a century ago, the design of the hole punch hasn’t changed too much, in that it involves a lever capable of punching through a thick stack of paper. According to Google, the company has made [more than 2,000 doodles](https://www.google.com/doodles/about "undefined") since they first started appearing on its homepage in 1998\. 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