Happy belated birthday Lego! 28th of January was Lego’s birthday, and it turns 50 in year 2008. It has been real long time since I played lego, the last time was way less than 10 years old if I am not mistaken. I’m not really into lego as I’m not creative to build cool things out of it. Anyway, it is still one of the oldest toy, perhaps one of the best.

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 well”).

Even Google have a doodle to celebrate Lego’s birthday: