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High-tech Birthday Salute For Lego


COPENHAGEN The logo for Google, the internet search engine, on its home page pays tribute to Lego, the childrens construction toy, on its 50th anniversary. The plastic building blocks, patented in Denmark in 1958, became one of the most popular toys in the world but experienced a severe crisis at the end of the 1990s, hit by competition from interactive computer games. Lego recovered to be named Toy of the Century in 1999 by Fortune, the US business magazine. Yesterday it was being saluted by the new technology that almost finished it off. (AFP)

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