Your top three inventions of ALL TIME

[SaltyNuts]

Mine:

1. Alcohol (thank you Bai Cheng!)

2. Internet (thank you Al Gore!)

3. Charcoal chimney (thank again Pixelsquish!)

What are yours?

 

[KMFJD]

1.Writing
2.Vaccines
3. Electricity

 

[GagHalfrunt]

1) Language
2) The steam engine
3) Computer porn

 

[Cappuccino]

1.) puppies
2.) Kittens
3.) iPhone

 

[Thebobo]

1. Sanitation
2. Anesthesia
3. Icecream

 

[Humpy]

1. Pineapple
2. God
3. In college I invented a device that would protect an egg from a 15' drop using only one sheet of printer paper and 3" of Scotch tape.

 

[homebrew2ny]

1. Pants
2. Television
3. Cups

 

[IronWing]

indoor plumbing
toilet paper
pop machine

 

[Ajay]

1) Fire
2) Language
3) Cutting and stabbing tools

 

[Sonikku]

1.Electricity
2.Car
3.Nintendo Entertainment System

 

[nakedfrog]

1. Pants
2. Television
3. Cups

Pants?!? Booo-urns.

 

[Mayne]

beer
internet
this forum

 

[cavemanmoron]

1.Writing
2.Vaccines
3. Electricity

Darn good ones there....

Fire.
Wheel.
Medicine.

 

[cbrunny]

Is electricity really an invention? I'm pretty sure it exists in nature. Harnessing electricity. Controlling it. Devices that do this, yes. But electricity itself...

 

[Ajay]

Is electricity really an invention? I'm pretty sure it exists in nature. Harnessing electricity. Controlling it. Devices that do this, yes. But electricity itself...

Poast fail

/əˌlekˈtrisədē/ a state or feeling of thrilling excitement.

 

[zinfamous]

Is electricity really an invention? I'm pretty sure it exists in nature. Harnessing electricity. Controlling it. Devices that do this, yes. But electricity itself...

well, same with fire. both are commonly considered discoveries.

1. printing press (many ethnographers and linguists convincingly argue now that language is actually inherent, so not really an invention)
2. vaccines
3. fainting goats

 

[MrDudeMan]

1) Fire
2) Language
3) Cutting and stabbing tools

/thread

 

[GagHalfrunt]

1) Fire
2) Language
3) Cutting and stabbing tools

But not bludgeoning tools? Man, the hammer gets no respect.

 

[BurnItDwn]

1.) Dictionaries, so people can learn the difference between "inventing" something and "discovering" it.
2.) The moon, because it is made out of cheese.
3.) Space Ships, so we can get that cheese!

 

[shortylickens]

The World Wide Web
Anandtech Forums
the Ignore feature on Anandtech Forums

 

[TXHokie]

Refrigeration
Automobile
High speed mobile data
- I can now get from A to B fast in my climate controlled car and never get lost and also find a good place to eat is some strange town.

 

[BoomerD]

A school teacher asked her class what they thought was the most important invention ever. Kids came up with the usual answers..."telephone because you can call anyone anywhere in the world, cars because you can drive places much faster than any previous type of transportation, etc."

One little kid thought about it for a few minutes and said, "teacher...it's gotta be 5he thermos vacuum bottle."

She looked at him and asked him why he thought that.

"Well, teacher," he said, " it keeps hot things hot and cold things cold."

"OK," she said...

"But teacher, how does it know?"





Thank you, thank you! I'll be here all week. Order the fish...and don't forget to tip your server.

 

[Ajay]

But not bludgeoning tools? Man, the hammer gets no respect.

Bludgeoning tools are most useful for homicide, not so good at killing a wilder beast.

 

[GagHalfrunt]

Bludgeoning tools are most useful for homicide, not so good at killing a wilder beast.

Most of the critters that really need killing are human or smaller. Between a hammer and a fly-swatter you've got most of your violent rages covered.

 

[cbrunny]

1. Footwear.
2. Birth Control.
3. Your mom's phone number.