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The playable T-Rex has been dubbed the "Lonely T-Rex" by developers.
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Due to the popularity of Chrome Dino, Google was forced to give the option for system administrators to deactivate the game following complaints of decreased productivity in students and workers.
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Additional animations were considered for the T-Rex, including roaring and a kick inspired by Sonic The Hedgehog, but these were scrapped to keep the animation rigid.
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During development, Chrome Dino was named "Project Bolan" affter Marc Bolan, lead singer of the band T. Rex.
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The T-Rex is considered an internal mascot to the team that works on Google Chrome, with multitudes of exclusive merchandise being distributed to employees.
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The desert backdrop and cacti hazards originate from an earlier iteration of the Google Chrome offline screen.
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Chrome Dino is most popular with users from countries with unreliable or expensive broadband, such as India, Brazil, Mexico, or Indonesia.
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Chrome Dino is coded to conclude after playing for 17 million years straight, the same amount of time between the dinosaurs' evolution and extinction. This is, quite obviously, not realistically possible for any player.
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The concept of Chrome Dino, the minigame on the page for Google Chrome's "No internet" error, is a play on the ubiquity of the Internet in modern society, suggesting that being without it is like being teleported to the Stone Age.
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