THE Invention in Your Lifetime

mullanphylane
mullanphylane Posts: 172 Member
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What single thing, invented during your lifetime, has had the most impact either on your life or society as a whole?

Handheld solid-state calculator, the predecessor of the personal computer. Not permitted in geometry and other mathematics classes when I was in high school - we had to use a slide rule.
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  • Unknown
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  • ZenDream
    ZenDream Posts: 208 Member
    Internet.
  • Motorsheen
    Motorsheen Posts: 20,508 Member
    edited May 2020
    It's either the wheel or rocks as weapons.





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  • GoJohnGo71
    GoJohnGo71 Posts: 439 Member
    Covid-19
  • SuzySunshine99
    SuzySunshine99 Posts: 2,989 Member
    Internet.
  • that_night_in_paris
    that_night_in_paris Posts: 457 Member
    Ice cream in a taco. Choco Taco.

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  • Motorsheen
    Motorsheen Posts: 20,508 Member
    that_night_in_paris wrote: »
    Ice cream in a taco. Choco Taco.

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    ..... this right here should probably be the end of this thread; it damn sure should.
  • ZenDream
    ZenDream Posts: 208 Member
    that_night_in_paris wrote: »
    Ice cream in a taco. Choco Taco.

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    Is it weird that I see some type of bizarro species of fish?
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  • Motorsheen
    Motorsheen Posts: 20,508 Member
    ZenDream wrote: »
    that_night_in_paris wrote: »
    Ice cream in a taco. Choco Taco.

    choco-taco-ice-cream.png?x14477

    Is it weird that I see some type of bizarro species of fish?

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  • vanityy99
    vanityy99 Posts: 2,583 Member
    edited May 2020
    I can’t think of, or remember anything that impacted society but this was the first thing that popped into my head ...the Walkman
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  • that_night_in_paris
    that_night_in_paris Posts: 457 Member
    vanityy99 wrote: »
    I can’t think of, or remember anything that impacted society but this was the first thing that popped into my head ...the Walkman
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    That's not a Walkman, kiddo.
  • corinasue1143
    corinasue1143 Posts: 7,460 Member
    George Foreman grill was big for me. Probably not so much for society.
  • vanityy99
    vanityy99 Posts: 2,583 Member
    that_night_in_paris wrote: »
    vanityy99 wrote: »
    I can’t think of, or remember anything that impacted society but this was the first thing that popped into my head ...the Walkman
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    That's not a Walkman, kiddo.

    Oops
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  • Diatonic12
    Diatonic12 Posts: 32,344 Member
    Older than my lifetime .....but still relevant: Antibiotics
  • TwitchyMacGee
    TwitchyMacGee Posts: 3,120 Member
    Idk how any gen x-er or older could say anything other than Internet. so many following inventions depended on that one. It changed everything
  • ZenDream
    ZenDream Posts: 208 Member
    It's hard to image anything more impactful on the world than the internet.
  • Motorsheen
    Motorsheen Posts: 20,508 Member
    ZenDream wrote: »
    It's hard to image anything more impactful on the world than the internet.

    This is true.

    It's changed most everything, right?

    I mean, if it wasn't for the internet, I wouldn't be able to spend time here chatting with folks from all over the wor....

    Dang.

    I hate this internet thing. Damn you Al Gore.
  • GettinLean19
    GettinLean19 Posts: 452 Member
    CD players

    I got REEEEAL tired of rewinding tapes
  • Motorsheen
    Motorsheen Posts: 20,508 Member
    GettinLean19 wrote: »
    CD players

    I got REEEEAL tired of rewinding tapes

    @GettinLean19

    did you ever rewind the cassettes with a pencil just to save the walkman's batteries ??
  • GettinLean19
    GettinLean19 Posts: 452 Member
    Motorsheen wrote: »
    GettinLean19 wrote: »
    CD players

    I got REEEEAL tired of rewinding tapes

    @GettinLean19

    did you ever rewind the cassettes with a pencil just to save the walkman's batteries ??

    Gtfoh, i never could afford a walkman 😏
  • Motorsheen
    Motorsheen Posts: 20,508 Member
    that_night_in_paris wrote: »
    Ice cream in a taco. Choco Taco.

    choco-taco-ice-cream.png?x14477

    this.
  • MostlyWater
    MostlyWater Posts: 4,294 Member
    Microwave
  • Diatonic12
    Diatonic12 Posts: 32,344 Member
    ZenDream wrote: »
    It's hard to image anything more impactful on the world than the internet.
    Truth.

    It never closes. Our trail exists forever and it can never be deleted. It's such a dichotomy. It brings people together and pulls them apart. It widens business but the distraction narrows productivity.
  • midlomel1971
    midlomel1971 Posts: 1,283 Member
    Definitely the Internet. I tell my daughter constantly how lucky she is to have the Internet as a tool for learning and communication. When I was in college, we didn't even have email. If you didn't understand something after reading the textbook or class notes (the only resources you had), you had to trek to your professor's office and camp out during office hours.
  • PaperDoll_
    PaperDoll_ Posts: 32,857 Member
    Tickle Me Elmo
  • vanityy99
    vanityy99 Posts: 2,583 Member
    Limewire and Kazzaa
  • KosmosKitten
    KosmosKitten Posts: 10,476 Member
    Everyone will say "internet" or "smartphones", but as a child of the 80s, the invention that had the biggest impact on me personally was the NES.

    A game system you could play at home, that taught hand/eye coordination and actually helped fix (yes, I said FIX my dyslexia). Also, it started a lifetime love affair with all things pertaining to gaming and led to a lot of the game consoles we have now.

    Good ol' NES. Also, who can forget the judgmental *kitten* dog from Duck Hunt?

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  • that_night_in_paris
    that_night_in_paris Posts: 457 Member
    vanityy99 wrote: »
    Limewire and Kazzaa
    *cough* THIEF! *cough*
  • iMago
    iMago Posts: 8,714 Member
    KosmosKitten wrote: »
    Everyone will say "internet" or "smartphones", but as a child of the 80s, the invention that had the biggest impact on me personally was the NES.

    A game system you could play at home, that taught hand/eye coordination and actually helped fix (yes, I said FIX my dyslexia). Also, it started a lifetime love affair with all things pertaining to gaming and led to a lot of the game consoles we have now.

    Good ol' NES. Also, who can forget the judgmental *kitten* dog from Duck Hunt?

    NES.png

    I've still got mine hooked up and working. i got like 50 games but the only ones i ever play anymore are the first Mario bros, punch out and occasionally battletoads

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