This stems from a conversation FH and I were having last night.
In the last 30 or so years, what do you think has been the best invention?
I'm sure there are some real world-saving, life-changing things, but ours are superficial:
I say EZ Pass and TiVo - they make my life easier!!
FH says the Internet and email.
How about the rest of you?
danigirl0
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absolutely not! once i discovered them..there was no turning back!
Xelindrya
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1975 CAT (computerized axial tomography) scanner 1979 Sony Walkman 1979 Cell Phones Invented 1981 First Reusable Spacecraft (Columbia) goes into Space 1982 Human growth hormone genetically engineered 1987 Disposable contact lenses invented 1988 The RU-486 (abortion pill) invented. 1988 Digital Cellular Phones invented 1990 The World Wide Web/Internet protocol (HTTP) and WWW language (HTML) created by Tim Berners-Lee.
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Posted by Xelindrya
1990 The World Wide Web/Internet protocol (HTTP) and WWW language (HTML) created by Tim Berners-Lee.
I just finished reading Angels and Demons by Dan Brown and I thought CERN was just fiction until I saw it listed in the acknowledgements.
Xelindrya
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Posted by Kriss2c I just finished reading Angels and Demons by Dan Brown and I thought CERN was just fiction until I saw it listed in the acknowledgements.
More random trivia: heh
Tim Berners-Lee is credited with having created the World Wide Web while he was a researcher at the European High-Energy Particle Physics lab, the Conseil Européenne pour la Recherche Nucleaire (CERN), in Geneva, Switzerland. A tool was needed to enable collaboration between physicists and other researchers in the high energy physics community.
Tim Berners-Lee wrote a proposal called HyperText and CERN and circulated his proposal for comments at CERN in 1989. The proposal was the solution to the technologies that would enable collaboration in the high energy physics community. Tim had a background in text processing, communications, and real-time software. The proposal was further refined by Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau in 1990.
CERN is now called now the European Organization for Nuclear Research or the Organisation Européenne de Recherche Nucléaire.
don424
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all the sports fans will agree:
INSTANT REPLAY!!!
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now i'm in the mood for a trip to epcot center so i can ride the carosel of progress!
It's in the Magic Kingdom ... 'there's a great big beautiful tomorrow ... right around the corner every day ...'
ETA: I hadn't read the other posts ... apparently it's been said already!
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Internet Dunkin Donuts Iced caramel Late Chewy Sprees DVD Player Foodnetwork Oh and Sports Bars with High Def TV's and surround sound for football games
Xelindrya
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Jim just wanted to add:
NAPSTER
as the best invention in our lifetimes.
Happybride2005
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LIW caller id
Maribelle7777
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Cell phones - definitely for emergencies
Internet - information at our fingertips
CD's and DVD's and CD/DVD players
Ipods or other portable music players
Personal computers for obvious reasons
medicines to help stop the progression of AIDS and help put cancer and other diseases in remission
Maribelle7777
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Oh and lipstick that stays on most, if not, the whole day.
Gotta love that!
Butterflybride
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Internet cell phones Tivo
prncssrachel
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By far the underwire bra. I'm not sure if it was the last 30 years, but I'd kiss the person who invented that bad boy!
