What would you consider to be among the world's greatest inventions? Top of my list has to be................... Toilet roll!
Money -- without it we would never have progressed beyond bartering a flint arrowhead or two for some cobnuts with the neighbouring tribe.
Certainly does it for me. It still blows my mind. I guess when I was younger the other things were already around, and were taken for granted. I remember doing a quiz which ran in the Observer for a number of weeks. It involved several research sessions for me at Dereham Library to complete it. Now it would be under an hour on Google. Phenomenal!
Don't know why, but Tony Cascarino springs to mind for some reason. Can't disagree about the internet as the best invention, very difficult to imagine what life would like without it and it's only been around for a decade or so. It's something we take completely for granted nowadays as part of every day life, but being of an age where I grew up without it it's strange to think at no point did I or anyone I know consider how brilliant it would be to have a library of virtually every piece of information you could ever want to know available at our fingertips. All of which makes me wonder what the next amazing life-changing invention is going to be, I don't think we'll ever be able to time-travel or else someone would have come back in time by now and surely we'd be aware of it, but I wouldn't completely rule out teleportation at some point - that would be cool! The IPod would also be up there as top inventions, but it wouldn't work without the internet so for me that has to be the daddy of them all
I have been using it for 20 years, and I suspect it was going perhaps another 5-10 years before I jumped on board
Your right, the Internet(not the WWW) has foundations going back to the 1960's when it was developed as a means of communication during the cold war. People get confused between the Internet(the infrastructure) and the WWW(the pages, sites etc) As regards to the WWW, Netscape Navigator was release December 1994 (first Public browser) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netscape_Navigator
Ok, I know it's been going longer than ten years (hence me adding the "or so" after decade) but I mean in terms of everyone having access to it in the home, phone, tablet etc. I first used it at uni in something like 1996 so I probably should have said twenty years, but back then there was nowhere near the amount of stuff there is available nowadays, and it took forever to open a page on the old dial-up. Like I said it is now a library for virtually any piece of information you could ever want to know, quite mind-blowing when you think about it.
The internet dates back to the early 1950's, the World Wide Web is far more recent being developed in 1979! That's probably what Munky was thinking of!
Money?? Probably the worlds worst invention tbh [video=youtube;tGk5ioEXlIM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGk5ioEXlIM[/video]
I'm probably wrong but I thought the foundations of the Internet were the ARPANET in 1963, what came before that then?, I'm not trying to be pedantic, just curious.
