Google was never a penny stock, unless you count $100 as pennies. The Google initial public offering (IPO) took place on August 19, 2004. Google's stock opened at $100.01 after the company priced the shares at $85 each.
"You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline - it helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer". F Zappa