The Dino Game is a built-in, offline browser game found in Google Chrome. It automatically appears when you lose your internet connection and try to load a webpage. Instead of just an error message, Chrome shows a small pixel-art dinosaur on a blank screen with the message "No Internet." But here’s the twist: pressing the spacebar turns that dinosaur into a runner.

The dino game was created by a team of Chrome developers at Google and launched in September 2014. The idea behind the game was simple: make something fun and interactive to keep users entertained while their internet was down.

The development team humorously named it Project Bolan, a reference to Marc Bolan, the lead singer of the glam rock band T. Rex. The dinosaur itself—a classic Tyrannosaurus rex—was chosen because it symbolized the "prehistoric era" before modern internet connectivity.

The creators wanted to build a game that could run on almost any device, even low-powered ones. That’s why the game features basic black-and-white pixel graphics and minimal code, yet remains smooth and addictive.