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Doing Digital
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Doing Digital

by Ved Sen
January 2023
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
270 pages
6h 1m
English
Business Expert Press
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CHAPTER 11

Digital Infrastructure: Middleware and API

For the first 14 years of its existence, Lego was a wooden toy maker. Then in 1946, Lego bought the first injection molding in Denmark, and spent the next 12 years, it persisted, through many setbacks, to create a model of plastic bricks, which would provide the optimum level of adhesion for children to snap them together and then pull them apart, without the bricks falling apart of their own volition. But once the stud and tube coupling system (look under a Lego brick) was patented in 1958, it did more than hold two pieces of plastic together. It allowed the creation of the Lego brick architecture—which allowed any two pieces of Lego to be snapped together. It made Lego a platform of toys. ...

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ISBN: 9781637424100