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Fun fact: boomers entered the workforce before credit scores existed. Credit scores were created in 1989, but people treat them like they were in the bible.
Credit scores are as old as the simpsons!!
It’s not going to get better until we start killing office buildings full of these people.
1905 is a milestone of modern physics, because it’s when Special Relativity came out.
That’s older than the transistor, which was commercialized in 1951. But it’s also older than the vacuum tube triode, which was invented in 1906 or 1908.
In 1905, there were no amplifiers of any kind (though there were relay switches). There was almost no radio. The triode was a necessary invention for almost all of analog electronics.
Meh, you could do signal amplification via transformers and tuned resonators.
It sucked, but it was possible.
That’s how we had telephones before we had tubes.
Transformers can increase voltage while decreasing current, or increase current while decreasing voltage, but can’t increase a signal’s power.
I know, but this just means you start with a very high current signal.
You lose a lot, but again it’s what we had before transistors.
https://chatgpt.com/share/6802a819-b230-8002-b359-b206b5c52834
It’s basically blood magic.
It’s signal amplification by cannibalizing other band stop signals.
That’s a cool story, thanks for sharing!
The wright brothers flew almost 2 years before special relativity came out.
Wtf is a triode?
three electrodes
Chicken tikka masala was supposedly only invented in the 1960s - 1970s. Butter chicken only in the 1950s. Now I’m scared to look up naan for fear of learning it was invented by Nestle in 1994 or whatever.
Naan is safe.
General Tso’s chicken on the other hand, is another 1960s invention.
Same with orange chicken.
In fact, most “Chinese” food that Americans or Brits eat was invented in the 60s or 70s.
This is a dumb one, but I’ve watched ASMR reiki videos for stress-relief and at least one has said words like “Reiki is an ancient Japanese technique which blah blab blah” Yeah… It was made up in the
50’s1910s by some dude.If reiki(dot)org, which claims to be the international center for this malarkey training is true, they apparently say some different forms of it were around in the 1910s, but I saw absolutely nothing about it being ancient.
Why did you spell that with a “(dot)” and then include an actual link? The reason people use (dot) or (at) is when they don’t want software to automatically see something as a link or an email address, and yet you intentionally added a link.
Because I am an idiot on some form of autopilot. I never type full links in comments but I definitely wasn’t thinking when I did that this time.
It was to protect the ancient secrets of reiki from intrusion.
Yeah, it looks like you’re right. Not sure what I read years ago. This is what Wikipedia says:
Mikao Usui originated the practice in Japan. According to the inscription on his memorial stone, Usui taught his system of reiki to more than 2,000 people during his lifetime. While teaching reiki in Fukuyama, Usui suffered a stroke and died on 9 March 1926.
So, apparently before 1926. Still, really far away from “ancient”.
Carbonara was invented around 1950.
No respect will be afforded to Italian cuisine based on this fact
If you really want to rustle their jimmies, remind them that tomatoes came from South America, and weren’t introduced until westward exploration.
Why would anybody care? The only thing that matters is who uses them to make good stuff.
While true, this can be done by Italians to other nations with Worcestershire sauce, baklava and principate though.
And borsch wasn’t red. It’s called because of the plant that was the main ingredient.
Which is mostly not used now because of its intentionally bred toxic relative being a really problematic invasive species in all of former USSR and around.
And another thing that “wasn’t introduced until westward exploration” is English-speaking Americans
Shall we mention the potato
It was a turnip replacement, I think, in most cuisines
Also corn, bell peppers and chocolate.
You know how you can push some buttons on your wall and your house magically warms up or cools down? I know people who were alive before that existed.
Oh, and salmon sushi was invented in the 1980’s by the Norwegian fishing industry. Before that, no salmon in sushi.
bestest sushi
Who started putting avocado in sushi? I hate that shit. It seems like everyone thinks it’s key ingredient in sushi rolls now.
You know multiple people who are 123 years old???
I was thinking of central heat and air conditioning accessible to the masses for home use. But you are right that the history of HVAC goes back much farther than that.
I still can’t do that
Dick Van Dyke is older than sliced bread.
Sliced bread was the best thing since Betty White
I fucking love bread, but I’m not sure sliced bread is better than Dick Van Dyke. We may have gotten it all wrong from the get-go.
The term mullet was coined by the Beastie Boys in 1994
George Kennedy calls someone a mullet head in Cool Hand Luke.
The term has been around meaning a fool or idiot. Also the fish. The Beastie Boys were the first to use it to refer to the haircut.
Always upvote a George Kennedy reference
Invention that will seem obvious after it’s introduced: a phone camera that can film in landscape while being held vertically.
Invention that’s not obvious but I’m sure it’s a brilliant idea: edible, bacon-flavored wrapping paper so that pets can open their own presents!
Invention that will seem obvious after it’s introduced: a phone camera that can film in landscape while being held vertically.
Why don’t we have this??
People turning their phones to film in landscape will probably be one of those things that’ll look silly in old media once this is changed.
Increases the hardware pixel count by ~1.6x while being wasted every shot.
Just turn your fucking phone.
That being said, half our phones have like 3 cameras on the back we don’t use, so sure, throw a fourth on, why not?
It wouldn’t. It would just switch the orientation of the camera. The preview/what you’re looking at would remain in portrait mode.
It’s literally a software problem. You don’t use a different camera when you go into landscape mode, you’re just using a different aspect ratio.
So again, why don’t we have this?
i think its not about the camera, but about the screen you are seeing the recording on. Imagine taking a video in landscape but having to check what you are recording in portrait. What would i want that disadvantage for?
Btw i find the many people who watch wide screen videos in portrait mode fucked up.
You could still rotate your phone if you wanted to, it just wouldn’t be necessary anymore.
Phones have square camera sensors.There’s no reason that shouldn’t be a thing already.
Back before the 1970’s if a woman was travelling she’d have her husband or a porter carry her bags. With the rise of women travelling alone there was suddenly a market for wheeled bags. Men didn’t want them because they made men look too weak to carry their own luggage.
Fellas is it weak to not carry your 50lb suitcase everywhere? Definitionally yes but oh my god how fragile.
Clearly the High V
This dude is in sorely need of Appian transit
Almost no “traditional” recipes are older than 150 years.
Edit: i meant meals, not basic fare.
Traditional food : bread
Porridge has been around since roman times.
Is it comparable to today’s oatmeal? Is porridge a separate food from oatmeal?
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Oatmeal is a type of porridge, but you can make it from a lot of grains
You: “Almost no”
Comments: pff look, some example!
Reading comprehension is in the dirt.
Before high fives? Tipping their hat I guess? A subtle nod?
Gentlemanly tug job.
“well, and a kind ‘hello’ to you too, good sir!”
Before high fives, in the 60’s it was “Peace✌️”
Go even further back, lifting your helmet’s visor to show your face.
My money’s on enthusiastic handshakes and cheering. Source: old movies.
It’s 2025 and my invention idea from the 1980’s, the glow in the dark toilet seat, still hasn’t taken off. Makes me want to quit inventing.
Makes me want start pooping.
Oh jeez I’m old
Not because I was around when this stuff was invented but because I went to school way back when they actually taught you stuff, including when things were invented
