
A history of games
The History Hour
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The Little Plastic World
The first plastic lege breaks made at the end of the 19 forties were hollow and fairly basic, with little slits in they could be stacked on top of each other. They started exporting bricks to germany, then switzerland and later to the us. In 19 t the lego wheel was invented. And this meant that pretty much any lego construction could be mobile. But is there a wider issue with the way children spend their free time in front of computer screens? Can the lego bricks survive? We don't need to grow up. For we could still be childish inside and decide when to be serious and when to have fun.
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