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LEGO Brick: 50 years

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You know something is up when Google’s graphic of the day is made of LEGO blocks – it is the 50th anniversary of the LEGO block. Gizmodo has a nice LEGO Brick Timeline: 50 Years of Building Frenzy and Curiosities. They explain that Google founders Page and Brin used LEGO blocks to build an expandable disk storage casing for their prototype search engine in 1996.

This entry was posted on Monday, January 28th, 2008 at 10:56 am and is filed under History of Computing and Multimedia, Playful or Cool. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

One Response to “LEGO Brick: 50 years”

  1. ShawnDay Says:
    January 29th, 2008 at 9:22 am

    And in honour of same Millenium Falcon

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