+The Cheeseheads Posted January 10, 2005 Share Posted January 10, 2005 Link The GPSr is number six of the top 25 innovations of the past 25 years, behind cell phones, PCs, fibre optics, email, and the as yet-unnannounced number one. Quote Link to comment
+MarcB Posted January 10, 2005 Share Posted January 10, 2005 The Internet has to be number 1... Quote Link to comment
+Two Geeks and a GPS Posted January 10, 2005 Share Posted January 10, 2005 Al Gore's internet???? Quote Link to comment
+AuntieWeasel Posted January 10, 2005 Share Posted January 10, 2005 The Internet has to be number 1... If it isn't, somebody deserves to be flogged. Quote Link to comment
+Joe Smith Posted January 10, 2005 Share Posted January 10, 2005 Well, we beat out the laptop Quote Link to comment
+Renegade Knight Posted January 10, 2005 Share Posted January 10, 2005 Man that list is redundant. The internet has to be number one. It makes a lot of other things possible that couldn't even exist on that list. Quote Link to comment
+Robespierre Posted January 10, 2005 Share Posted January 10, 2005 the photocopier!! Quote Link to comment
+Sputnik 57 Posted January 10, 2005 Share Posted January 10, 2005 (edited) Cheese whiz. Edit: Oh, wait. I meant Sputnik. That't the ticket! Edited January 10, 2005 by Sputnik 57 Quote Link to comment
+Team Perks Posted January 10, 2005 Share Posted January 10, 2005 Definitely has to be the internet. Or Silly Putty. It's a tough call. Quote Link to comment
+El Diablo Posted January 10, 2005 Share Posted January 10, 2005 (edited) Man that list is redundant. The internet has to be number one. It makes a lot of other things possible that couldn't even exist on that list. The list was for innovations over the past 25 years. The internet became forming in the late 60's it wasn't until the early 70's that it really made headway. My guess would be the microchip El Diablo Edited January 10, 2005 by El Diablo Quote Link to comment
+wimseyguy Posted January 10, 2005 Share Posted January 10, 2005 Or Silly Putty. It's a tough call. I left some silly putty in a cache yesterday. After the hike it's what my legs felt like. I think the cell phone camera deserves more recognition. Think of all of the new voyeur sites it has alloew to develop (pun intended). Quote Link to comment
+RichardMoore Posted January 10, 2005 Share Posted January 10, 2005 The Internet has to be number 1... If it isn't, somebody deserves to be flogged. Isn't that mtn-man's job? Quote Link to comment
+BlueDeuce Posted January 10, 2005 Share Posted January 10, 2005 Well, according to the inventor, the Segway Human Transporter was going to be bigger than the internet. I'm pretty sure it's not. Quote Link to comment
+RichardMoore Posted January 10, 2005 Share Posted January 10, 2005 the photocopier!! That's older than 25 years. Quote Link to comment
+RichardMoore Posted January 10, 2005 Share Posted January 10, 2005 Definitely has to be the internet. Or Silly Putty. It's a tough call. Silly Putty's older than 25 years. Quote Link to comment
+AuntieWeasel Posted January 10, 2005 Share Posted January 10, 2005 The list was for innovations over the past 25 years. The internet became forming in the late 60's it wasn't until the early 70's that it really made headway. My guess would be the microchip The microchip dates to the same period. They could properly say the Web, I suppose. That dates to 1990 and is the only part of the internet (not counting email) most people are familiar with. Quote Link to comment
+Sputnik 57 Posted January 10, 2005 Share Posted January 10, 2005 Dang! Sputnik dates back to, well, 1957. When did they invent Cheese Whiz? Quote Link to comment
+Team Neos Posted January 10, 2005 Share Posted January 10, 2005 Dang! Sputnik dates back to, well, 1957. When did they invent Cheese Whiz? Cheese Whiz was another of those marvels of the 50s. Cheese Whiz Quote Link to comment
+Beta Test Posted January 10, 2005 Share Posted January 10, 2005 (edited) Man that list is redundant. The internet has to be number one. It makes a lot of other things possible that couldn't even exist on that list. The list was for innovations over the past 25 years. The internet became forming in the late 60's it wasn't until the early 70's that it really made headway. My guess would be the microchip El Diablo More specifically the silicon microchip. If not for that we would have regular computers the size of rooms! If a home PC is that big, how large would a commercial sized server be? Edited January 10, 2005 by Beta Test Quote Link to comment
+sTeamTraen Posted January 10, 2005 Share Posted January 10, 2005 Man that list is redundant. The internet has to be number one. It makes a lot of other things possible that couldn't even exist on that list. The list was for innovations over the past 25 years. The internet became forming in the late 60's it wasn't until the early 70's that it really made headway. My guess would be the microchip El Diablo More specifically the silicone microchip. If not for that we would have regular computers the size of rooms! If a home PC is that big, how large would a commercial sized server be? Intel shipped their first microprocessor, the 4004, in 1971 if I remember correctly. And multi-transistor integrated circuits had been around for a few years before that. Nick PS: Pedantic point: it's silicon (the chemical element), not silicone (the polymer best known from, um, bathroom tile seals). Quote Link to comment
+Renegade Knight Posted January 11, 2005 Share Posted January 11, 2005 Man that list is redundant. The internet has to be number one. It makes a lot of other things possible that couldn't even exist on that list. The list was for innovations over the past 25 years. The internet became forming in the late 60's it wasn't until the early 70's that it really made headway. My guess would be the microchip El Diablo The microchip came out of the space program. It was a wonder invention but I think it's too old. I also recall that the internet was invented out of a need for communications after a nuclear war since it was expected the EMP would pretty much destroy our communications system. I could be all washed up on that, the memory is fuzzy, but it's what I recall from somewhere. That does leave the WWW. part of the internet which is the invention/innovation that really caused it to take off. That doesn't have the same 'ta da' value as the entire internet though. Quote Link to comment
+Stump Posted January 11, 2005 Share Posted January 11, 2005 The list was for innovations over the past 25 years. The internet became forming in the late 60's it wasn't until the early 70's that it really made headway. But the World Wide Web wasn't invented until '89. It's the WWW that allowed the Internet to go mainstream. I used the internet when it was just the internet. Also, e-mail was invented in 1971 and fiber optics was invented around the 60s. So they aren't looking at when they were invented but when they became widely used. Quote Link to comment
+JT & PJ Cole Posted January 12, 2005 Share Posted January 12, 2005 I guessing that #1 will be the software that has enabled all of this inovative hardware to work together. To be more specific, TCP/IP, SMTP, and other networking protocol stacks. Or maybe it will be the George Forman Grill.... Quote Link to comment
+Cache us Clay Posted January 12, 2005 Share Posted January 12, 2005 Or maybe Tupperware? Quote Link to comment
+BilboB Posted January 12, 2005 Share Posted January 12, 2005 Did Beavis and Butthead make it? Quote Link to comment
+BilboB Posted January 12, 2005 Share Posted January 12, 2005 Would that be 2 inventions or 1? Quote Link to comment
+El Diablo Posted January 12, 2005 Share Posted January 12, 2005 What is this...pick on El Diablo's suggestion week? I thought mtn-man was the new whipping boy. When was beer huggies invented? El Diablo Quote Link to comment
+orome Posted January 12, 2005 Share Posted January 12, 2005 No riffs on "The Prisoner"? I'm shocked. Quote Link to comment
+Rabbitto Posted January 12, 2005 Share Posted January 12, 2005 Steve Austin. It has to be Steve Austin! Quote Link to comment
+SeventhSon Posted January 12, 2005 Share Posted January 12, 2005 I'd hafta go with Slinky ... the internet can't walk downstairs, alone or in pairs Quote Link to comment
+cache_test_dummies Posted January 17, 2005 Share Posted January 17, 2005 Anybody who guessed the Internet would be Number 1 was correct Quote Link to comment
+Joe Smith Posted January 17, 2005 Share Posted January 17, 2005 I guessing that #1 will be the software that has enabled all of this inovative hardware to work together. To be more specific, TCP/IP, SMTP, and other networking protocol stacks. Or maybe it will be the George Forman Grill.... Yeah, that's just a little too complex for the people who don't really know computers. You announce something like tha as #1 and people will just be corn-fused. Internet works for me Joe Smith By the way, the George Foreman Grill rocks. The fat just drips right off! Quote Link to comment
+Circle of Confusion Posted January 17, 2005 Share Posted January 17, 2005 My guess would have been the Spell Check. Without that I would be illiterate... Quote Link to comment
+GRANPA ALEX Posted January 17, 2005 Share Posted January 17, 2005 (edited) Read somewhere that all the software & computer stuff on the original lunar lander could now fit in a small hand-held calculator which is even more powerful than that lander in storage & function. There is a new chip that holds 'Terrabytes' of data coming in from China - can you imagine a dozen full length movies on your GPSr with room to spare - THAT's innovation & MY vote! Edited January 17, 2005 by GRANPA ALEX Quote Link to comment
+BilboB Posted January 18, 2005 Share Posted January 18, 2005 It was a toss up between Mountain Dew and NoDoz for me. Actually it was Beavis and Butthead, but after I really stopped and thought about this one, the Dew and the Doz are my winners. Where do you think the internet would be without both of these staples? Quote Link to comment
kayaker22589 Posted January 18, 2005 Share Posted January 18, 2005 The top inventions for me are definitly Dr Pepper and Moon Pies Quote Link to comment
stang buff Posted January 18, 2005 Share Posted January 18, 2005 Gotta be Duct Tape! Quote Link to comment
+Camo-crazed Posted January 24, 2005 Share Posted January 24, 2005 Gotta be Duct Tape! Hooray for The Red Green show I nominate ammo boxes Quote Link to comment
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