Noticed the Google logo made with Lego?
Have you noticed Google logo in Google’s main page recently? It has this image made of some Lego blocks. Google has always had this fondness towards Lego blocks. One of their first computer were ‘modded’ from imitation Lego blocks. Those things that made up some sort of special theme or character on the Google logo’s are called ‘Doodle’. It was first used when Larry and Sergey went to this annual ‘Burning Man’ festival. It’s like a Silicon Valley techie’s and geeks, artists, anarchists, intellectual and whole other groups place to get out of the normal routine. There were drugs, art displays and the likes. The place was held in Nevada’s Black Rock Dessert. It was like a more cultured Woodstock I might say. Buying and selling was forbidden except for a cafe that dispense only coffee and ice. Folks usually bring a weeks supply to this place.
The first Doodle
Anyway, why is it called burning man? They burn a really huge wooden figure 40 feet high. That’s the highlight of the event actually. So before the Google founders head to this place, they experimented on their early Google website by incorporating a rendering of the Man in the second ‘O’ of Google. Folks who saw it for the first time had mixed remarks of course. There are those who thought it was crude and they go like “what the hell?” but for those who knew about the Burning Man festival, they knew exactly where the two were headed to.
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hehee..i love lego,been playing them since i was 4 i think…that was 22 years ago!!!!OMG!n i still can’t stop playing it.but the price now is too expensive lah…bikin takut…
I think I used to have the imitation ones la. But it sure is still fun. You can go wild as a kid. Monsters, fighter pilots, trains, robots… you can build anything with it!
Didn’t we used to have Lego at home? The imitation ones and the genuine ones I think. LOL! I remember seeing the “truck” Lego at home tho.
the “O” just had to be placed at that strategic spot of the Man, right?
Cindy- Yes we did
esther- You got sharp eyes! Did’nt notice that… LOL
Aik!! Since when you change your avatar pic bro?? Wahh.. so now like mine lah ha!! but I must say I’m much asam boi than u lah..
Eshark- Since a couple of weeks ago. Want to ‘ikut-ikut’ kau bah. OK lah, then I win on the chubby department lah. LOL!