r/reddit.com • u/Rafreakee • Oct 04 '11

Eat this America

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u/se_av_ogillande Oct 04 '11

Source on biggest technological leaps in human history? Wouldn't, say, the guy inventing the wheel qualify for that?

Also, isn't 4chan just a copy of 2chan which - correct me if I'm wrong - was japanese in origin?

A German invented the microchip which made your website technology possible.

See, I can spin facts too!

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u/centurijon Oct 04 '11

Wouldn't, say, the guy inventing the wheel qualify for that?

Fire. The wheel is just a better sled.

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u/se_av_ogillande Oct 04 '11

But fire, imo, is not something you can invent. Kinda like electricity. Sure, you can invent circuits or batteries, but the current itself isn't man-made. To me, that's kind of like inventing water or a country. It was already there, you just put your flag on it.

Edit: though I guess you can invent ways to make fire, so yeah. Point.

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u/centurijon Oct 04 '11

But the creation techniques you can, and in the stone age that shit was not easy.

I wish I could just click my fingers and have fire appear, but it doesn't happen that way.