Meet The Go Gopher - the official mascot of Go, the open-source programming language created at Google and used inside Google itself.
Public since 2009. Now used by millions of developers who call themselves “gophers.”
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Created by Renée French, the Gopher became Go’s mascot for its 2009 open-source launch. Google later turned him into plush toys for Google I/O and vinyl figures for OSCON. The full history is documented on Go’s own website.
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Go's official website uses the Gopher as its favicon.
The community even has GopherCon - an annual Go conference running since 2014. Its 2026 edition was in Seattle, August 3–6. The organisers call attendees “your gopher friends.”
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A mascot since 2009. Millions of Gophers. An entire developer culture.
Now $GOPHER comes onchain, paired with $GOOGL.
Go is Google's in-house programming language.
An entire community of millions of Go devs call themselves gophers.
They meet at GopherCon around the world.
You're looking at their mascot. $GOPHER
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