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| Thread ID: 60817 | 2005-08-14 05:08:00 | Minor inventions of the 20th century. | Richard (739) | PC World Chat |
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| 380883 | 2005-08-15 04:22:00 | My random, probably invalid in some ways, picks: 1. the tcp/ip protocols and all that flows from them such as the browser, the ultimate of course, is the internet itself. 2. the micro-computer/pc architecture, which made computing accessible to almost everyone. 3. Microsoft Windows 3.1/95. Yeah yeah yeah, it consolidated Microsoft as the monster monopoly that is/was, but like the micro-computer/pc architecture, made computing and the internet accessible to almost everyone. It also built the internet as a unieral space for everyone and anyone, not just research, military, governement and academic groups. The other try-hards during that time - Apple Mac, BeOS, Amiga, Commodore, Acorn, Unix, blah blah blah - all failed for various reasons. 4. The ATM machine/EFTPOS. 5. The mobile phone. 6. Optical and flash storage devices. 7. Fuel-injection in the internal combustion engine. 8. The contraceptive pill. 9. Plastic. 10. The World Health Organisation. |
vinref (6194) | ||
| 380884 | 2005-08-15 04:31:00 | Ball point pens.What is that? Some kind of primitave inkjet? :-) -Qyiet |
qyiet (6730) | ||
| 380885 | 2005-08-15 04:37:00 | Rapid set concrete Talior mades |
Rob99 (151) | ||
| 380886 | 2005-08-15 05:05:00 | What is that? Some kind of primitave inkjet? :-) -Qyiet like a pencil only better |
sambaird (47) | ||
| 380887 | 2005-08-15 08:40:00 | What is that? Some kind of primitave inkjet? :-) -Qyiet Yes. But its portable and doesn't require batteries. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 380888 | 2005-08-15 09:11:00 | like a pencil only betterAh but pencils can run in zero gravity! | personthingy (1670) | ||
| 380889 | 2005-08-15 10:11:00 | the belly button warmer | andrew93 (249) | ||
| 380890 | 2005-08-15 11:42:00 | The torch (Electric, instead of flaming) | Laura (43) | ||
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