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<!--{{Infobox website | |||
| screenshot = Lego WWW Home Page (Kidnet).jpg | |||
| caption = The home page {{circa|December 1994}}, viewed in a [[Wikipedia:Windows 3.1|Windows 3.1]] browser | |||
| launch_date = {{start date and age|1993|12|28}} | |||
| discontinued = 1997 | |||
| type = Information, entertainment | |||
| url = {{ubl|legowww.homepages.com|legowww.itek.norut.no}} | |||
| author = David Koblas | |||
}} | |||
'''LEGO Information''' (also called the '''LEGO WWW server''') was a website that contained information and resources regarding LEGO. The site was launched by [[rec.toys.lego]] founder David Koblas in December 1993. It was one of the first pages on the [[Wikipedia:World Wide Web|World Wide Web]] dedicated to LEGO. | |||
== Content == | |||
LEGO Information contained lego information<ref name="Sterne"/> | |||
== History == | |||
[[rec.toys.lego]] founder David Koblas announced the launch of an experimental LEGO website (at the time called a "[[Wikipedia:World Wide Web|WWW]] [[Wikipedia:Web server|server]]") on 28 December 1993.<ref name="ATL Koblas WWW"/> | |||
== References == | |||
{{reflist|refs= | |||
<ref name="Sterne">{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/worldwidewebmark0000ster/page/134/mode/2up?view=theater |title=World Wide Web Marketing: Integrating the Internet into Your Marketing Strategy |first=Jim |last=Sterne |publisher=[[Wikipedia:John Wiley & Sons|John Wiley & Sons]] |location=[[Wikipedia:New York City|New York]] |year=1995 |isbn=0-471-12843-0 |chapter=Interactivity Is King – LEGO On-Line |pages=133-136}}</ref> | |||
<ref name="ATL Koblas WWW">{{cite newsgroup |url=https://groups.google.com/g/alt.toys.lego/c/J_ooJ80Z59I/m/dUZOOxjd-u0J |title=Experimental WWW server online |first=David |last=Koblas |date=28 December 1993 |newsgroup=alt.toys.lego |[email protected] |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20240428090546/https://groups.google.com/g/alt.toys.lego/c/J_ooJ80Z59I/m/dUZOOxjd-u0J |archive-date=28 April 2024 |url-status=live}}</ref> | |||
}} | |||
[[Category:1993 establishments]] | |||
[[Category:1997 disestablishments]] | |||
[[Category:LEGO fansites]] | |||
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(side page for rtl, might merge back in, but it's notable as it seems to be what angered Lego enough to make their own website)
