I remember when Chrome launched, it came out of nowhere. And it was launched with a comic. The comic was pretty good, the chapter on V8 starts at page 12:
That was a pretty fun/interesting read. Nowadays something like that would be done with an animated video instead.
What I found most amazing about it is that most of the ideas mentioned in there have persisted and many have made their way into other browsers. Which kind of indicates how many good choices they made at its inception.
Much as I'm not a fan of Google, this comic and Chrome's release were a noteworthy moment on the geek-side of my life, similar to Google Maps and GMail.
https://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/small_00.html