Doodle: 50 Years of Lego
Doodle January 28th, 2008 - By Haochi
Google today celebrates the 50th anniversary of the invention of the modern Lego bricks.
The LEGO history began in 1932 in Denmark, when Ole Kirk Christansen founded a small factory for wooden toys in the unknown town of Billund in the south of the country. To find a name for his company he organized a competition among his employees. As fate would have it however, he himself came up with the best name: LEGO – a fusion of the Danish words “LEg” and “GOdt” (”play wellv). ["50th Birthday of the LEGO Brick" - Lego.com]
The two Google founders “have always had a thing for LEGOS“. They built a programmable plotter, hard drive enclosure, and numerous of other things out of Lego bricks. This post from two years ago on the Google Talkabout featured a REAL Google logo made out of Lego bricks.
November 30th, 2008 at 6:21 pm
Pffft! Why do Americans say ‘Legos‘ instead of just ‘Lego‘?
Surely a piece of Lego is ‘Lego‘, several pieces of Lego are still just collectively known as ‘Lego‘.
It makes no sense God Damn You!
January 23rd, 2009 at 3:34 pm
Yes it does make sense! One lego, two legos! Just like dog & dogs, cat & cats, etc. (And to believe I used to think all the Brits were such nice people…)