{"id":1965,"date":"2008-01-28T10:56:12","date_gmt":"2008-01-28T15:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/?p=1965"},"modified":"2008-01-28T10:56:12","modified_gmt":"2008-01-28T15:56:12","slug":"lego-brick-50-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=1965","title":{"rendered":"LEGO Brick: 50 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/googlelego.gif' alt='googlelego.gif' align=\"center\"\/><\/p>\n<p>You know something is up when Google&#8217;s graphic of the day is made of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lego.com\/\">LEGO<\/a> blocks &#8211; it is the <a href=\"http:\/\/parents.lego.com\/Features\/50th%20Birthday.aspx\">50th anniversary<\/a> of the LEGO block. Gizmodo has a nice <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/349509\/lego-brick-timeline-50-years-of-building-frenzy-and-curiosities\">LEGO Brick Timeline: 50 Years of Building Frenzy and Curiosities<\/a>.   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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know something is up when Google&#8217;s graphic of the day is made of LEGO blocks &#8211; 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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=1965\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">LEGO Brick: 50 years<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history-of-computing-and-multimedia","category-playful-or-cool"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1965\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}