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    When I was a kid there were various companies making toy bricks - Lego were the best but there were many other kinds of copy cat bricks. As a child I had various sets of bricks from various companies - they often looked similar but had different sizes and quality of plastic but as a child I persevered - with a bit of effort I could get incompatible bricks to almost fit with each other or I would use one style of brick for one part of what I was making and others for other parts. The ones which almost fit would look wrong and feel wrong and would often come apart at inopportune moments but I was a kid so didn't really care. I could always kinda make what I set out to make and if some parts didn't fit and others didn't colour coordinate and others just looked wonky then that was good enough for me, as a child. These days that's web development.

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      When I was a kid there were various companies making toy bricks - Lego were the best but there were many other kinds of copy cat bricks. As a child I had various sets of bricks from various companies - they often looked similar but had different sizes and quality of plastic but as a child I persevered - with a bit of effort I could get incompatible bricks to almost fit with each other or I would use one style of brick for one part of what I was making and others for other parts. The ones which almost fit would look wrong and feel wrong and would often come apart at inopportune moments but I was a kid so didn't really care. I could always kinda make what I set out to make and if some parts didn't fit and others didn't colour coordinate and others just looked wonky then that was good enough for me, as a child. These days that's web development.

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      RugbyLeague wrote:

      These days that's web development.

      FTFY

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        When I was a kid there were various companies making toy bricks - Lego were the best but there were many other kinds of copy cat bricks. As a child I had various sets of bricks from various companies - they often looked similar but had different sizes and quality of plastic but as a child I persevered - with a bit of effort I could get incompatible bricks to almost fit with each other or I would use one style of brick for one part of what I was making and others for other parts. The ones which almost fit would look wrong and feel wrong and would often come apart at inopportune moments but I was a kid so didn't really care. I could always kinda make what I set out to make and if some parts didn't fit and others didn't colour coordinate and others just looked wonky then that was good enough for me, as a child. These days that's web development.

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        Did you have a point?

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          Did you have a point?

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          RugbyLeague
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          Merely an observation

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            Merely an observation

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            If memory serves some of the 'cheaper' bricks also did lock together quite right so the creation would fall apart...

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              If memory serves some of the 'cheaper' bricks also did lock together quite right so the creation would fall apart...

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              or look stable enough then the cheap bricks would just pop apart (usually at night)

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                When I was a kid there were various companies making toy bricks - Lego were the best but there were many other kinds of copy cat bricks. As a child I had various sets of bricks from various companies - they often looked similar but had different sizes and quality of plastic but as a child I persevered - with a bit of effort I could get incompatible bricks to almost fit with each other or I would use one style of brick for one part of what I was making and others for other parts. The ones which almost fit would look wrong and feel wrong and would often come apart at inopportune moments but I was a kid so didn't really care. I could always kinda make what I set out to make and if some parts didn't fit and others didn't colour coordinate and others just looked wonky then that was good enough for me, as a child. These days that's web development.

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                When I was a kid there was Meccanno(tm) - we used it to build really large flexible frameworks that we then didn't manage to find any purpose for. These days that's back end development

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