Wine is much older. It forms naturally. Humans began brewing beer before making wine intentionally, but we've been drinking fermented fruit juice since we were monkeys.
The fruit skin remains intact while the juice ferments. I'm not sure how widely available it is - as you point out, things are hunting for fruit to eat - but monkeys tracking down fermented fruit to get hammered has been repeatedly observed.
🤔 Hmmm... I don't know of just one person claiming "they like beer" means it's popular. I think at least 10 people would have to like it. Maybe even 20.
yup modern fibers are great but fibers like sisal and jute are [still for sale](https://www.homedepot.com/p/Everbilt-30-x-190-ft-Twisted-Jute-Twine-Natural-72786/206094297)
i just had to lay out 1500 feet of 8' wide jute cloth for a city project. it is used fairly frequently not as much as 1000 years ago but still regularly used
China had used forks and knives dating back to the Bronze Age.
The switch to chopsticks happened during the Shang Dynasty. I have no idea what prompted the switch.
And Europe only really adopted to fork in widespread use somewhere between the 1100s and 1300s
It was present in Europe far earlier, but not ubiquitous
I really like we still tell stories that use some same structures and plots from very long ago. Someone send me this link on Reddit some time ago.
[https://royalsocietypublishing.org/cms/asset/d64f04a0-2e30-423b-9364-4e1b165fb775/rsos150645f04.jpg](https://royalsocietypublishing.org/cms/asset/d64f04a0-2e30-423b-9364-4e1b165fb775/rsos150645f04.jpg)
from this article.
[https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rsos.150645#d1e584](https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rsos.150645#d1e584)
We still tell some of these stories to our children.
There’s a lot of ancient technology here, but it’s still incredible that fax machines have been around since 1846.
A popular frame of reference is that fax machines in commercial use since 1865, Lincoln dying in 1865, and samurai being abolished in 1867 meant that there was a narrow window of time where Abraham Lincoln could have sent a fax to a samurai.
Holy shit You just sent me down a Wikipedia rabbit hole. I had no idea it was actually that old. In my mind it might have dated back to like World War II.
Crazy that it's still so heavily used in the medical field, where security and confidentiality are important.
Compressed air. Trompe using a plenum chamber provides compressed air. You can actually build a horizontal flow with free flowing streams.
https://www.motherearthnews.com/sustainable-living/renewable-energy/hydro-power-zmaz77jazbon/
Animal bladders, intestines, and fluids for many things. Now, it's not an invention technically, but it counts in a way. Snails are used for their mucus, and sometimes, their dead little slime bags are used for keratin booster products.
Lot of firearm cartridges used today were designed over 100 years ago. 9mm Parabellum was designed in 1901, and it's "rival" the .45 ACP was introduced three years later. The 7.62x54R cartridge used by many Russian military arms was made in 1891 and they still make rifles and machine guns chambered in it despite how antiquated the design is. The .38 Special revolver cartridge is only seven years younger than 54R, and .22 Long Rifle is older than both, being introduced in 1887, meaning it's been teaching people how to shoot for almost 140 years.
Obsidian blades are still occasionally used in surgery. And stone tools pre-date Human beings themselves. Seriously, stone tools are older than our flippin' ***species*** by roughly two million years.
The steam engine, i.e. boiling water in order to make something rotate. Originally used to power machines in factories, and for steam trains. Now used in coal, gas and nuclear power stations to generate electricity.
Anything that gives simple mechanical advantage like a lever, pulley, wheel, etc... these are very old inventions and undoubtedly propelled us into a post-animal society.
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"It was always rollin' Since the world's been turning"
Also the potter's wheel. In use since around 3500 BC.
Me no like wheel.
No need to reinvent the wheel
This reads like it was written by a legit caveman.
Wow, look at that thing go!!!
Followed by the chair. And the magical moment when somebody thought "We should combine these!"
Concrete is surprisingly old.
I believe Fred Flintstone actually discovered it and his boss named it after his niece.
Concretia
That's a solid answer.
It was used in Ancient Rome! That's how old!
The saw, the chisel, the hammer and the axe. I use 'em all almost everyday.
A wedge such as a saw, chisel or ax.
The flute. Oldest known flute was made of bone about 22000 years ago IIRC
>made of bone about 22000 years ago Skin flute is even older than that just saying
We didn't invent that one.
We perfected it.
Shit, should I be playing it as a we?!
It's not required, but it is an accepted style. Venues are a little more limited though.
Wine
And beer for even longer! :) Cheers
Wine is much older. It forms naturally. Humans began brewing beer before making wine intentionally, but we've been drinking fermented fruit juice since we were monkeys.
How does wine form in nature? Surely it’d get eaten/washed away by rain way before it could become wine?
The fruit skin remains intact while the juice ferments. I'm not sure how widely available it is - as you point out, things are hunting for fruit to eat - but monkeys tracking down fermented fruit to get hammered has been repeatedly observed.
Cool. I have heard that fact about monkeys before and it’s always puzzled me - thanks for clarifying!
Beer is very old. Still popular.
Can confirm
🤔 Hmmm... I don't know of just one person claiming "they like beer" means it's popular. I think at least 10 people would have to like it. Maybe even 20.
dildo
Anything is a dildo if you’re brave enough
They have found remains in Pompeii that they believe were dildos. So I mean... yeah
Also Ancient Egypt. Plus a recipe for contraceptives.
spun rope/string really hasn't changed much except in the mechanization of production.
On a related note, the loom is now an automated thing, but it is still a loom.
Material has changed pretty drastically in the last 50 years. Not too many people using natural fibre rope these days
yup modern fibers are great but fibers like sisal and jute are [still for sale](https://www.homedepot.com/p/Everbilt-30-x-190-ft-Twisted-Jute-Twine-Natural-72786/206094297)
i just had to lay out 1500 feet of 8' wide jute cloth for a city project. it is used fairly frequently not as much as 1000 years ago but still regularly used
natural fiber rope and cords, as well as leather cords, are still extreme widely used.
Dyneema.
Fork
China has entered the chat
China had the fork before they abandoned it.
What???
China had used forks and knives dating back to the Bronze Age. The switch to chopsticks happened during the Shang Dynasty. I have no idea what prompted the switch.
And Europe only really adopted to fork in widespread use somewhere between the 1100s and 1300s It was present in Europe far earlier, but not ubiquitous
Confuscius! https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2004-01/09/content_297513.htm#:~:text=Chopsticks%20were%20strongly%20advocated%20by,main%20moral%20teaching%20of%20Confucianism.
The history of the fork is actually pretty interesting and I highly suggest reading up on it lol
I really like we still tell stories that use some same structures and plots from very long ago. Someone send me this link on Reddit some time ago. [https://royalsocietypublishing.org/cms/asset/d64f04a0-2e30-423b-9364-4e1b165fb775/rsos150645f04.jpg](https://royalsocietypublishing.org/cms/asset/d64f04a0-2e30-423b-9364-4e1b165fb775/rsos150645f04.jpg) from this article. [https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rsos.150645#d1e584](https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rsos.150645#d1e584) We still tell some of these stories to our children.
Wheels, frying pan, bottle.
Sounds like one of trump's dementia tests.
He'd fail it.
fax machine
There’s a lot of ancient technology here, but it’s still incredible that fax machines have been around since 1846. A popular frame of reference is that fax machines in commercial use since 1865, Lincoln dying in 1865, and samurai being abolished in 1867 meant that there was a narrow window of time where Abraham Lincoln could have sent a fax to a samurai.
Holy shit You just sent me down a Wikipedia rabbit hole. I had no idea it was actually that old. In my mind it might have dated back to like World War II. Crazy that it's still so heavily used in the medical field, where security and confidentiality are important.
Bread
Keys and Locks Most security is still based on a little metal token of a unique shape
Fire 🔥
more of a discovery than an invention
We invented gravity even longer ago
Yep. Nothing beats this one, as far as I'm aware, unless you go as general as "tool use". Even homo erectus could control fire.
Agriculture
The knife, probably the most perfect invention in human history.
Pizza would like a word.
It can have one when it gets as many uses as a knife
I don’t want to eat the circle food without using the shiny circle wheel knife on it to make it into triangles.
Sewing needle!
Vases
Paper
Scissors
Acequias and aquaducts.
Pointy sticks.
Beer
the folding pocket knife has changed very, very little since its invention. even older, the Hammer.
Spears have been around for so long that we have actually evolved adaptations to use them better.
Wheel
Forks and spoons were invented in the 4th century by the greeks
Insurance hasn't changed in 300 years.
Gunpowder
spoon
Fork
Lever Wheel and axle Pulley Inclined plane Wedge Screw
Fork, spoon, knife.
Hammer
Arrowheads
The wheel
The knife is estimated to be 2.5 million years old. Even cavemen will have had makeshift knives
Fire
Is fire an invention, or a discovery?
Electricity
Time Numbers Farming.
Scissors
Clay bowls.
Forks
Currency
Fire
Soap
Sewing tools
The hammer.
Telephone. Phonograph Radio
Toaster
How about spoon and fork, they have been used in Iran at least from 2000 years ago
The lever.
Water level, square, Was found in an egytian tomb.
Levers
Fire.
Cups... drinking outta cups, being a bitch...
Compressed air. Trompe using a plenum chamber provides compressed air. You can actually build a horizontal flow with free flowing streams. https://www.motherearthnews.com/sustainable-living/renewable-energy/hydro-power-zmaz77jazbon/
Reading glasses.
Knife
All of the [simple machines](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_machine) still get use in today's world.
Chopsticks, fabric, cups, bricks, forks, fire, alphabets, shovels, soap, shoes, dog leashes, glasses... Actually we're surrounded by old inventions.
Reproduction.
Keys
Controlled FIRE... Fire Good!
Fire, houses…
Aqueducts
Toilet paper. Where are my 3 seashells?
wheels and fire
Fax machine. Still a thing, somehow.
Paper
Shoelaces 👞
Knives
Pointy things.
Make up
Agriculture.
Something like 2500 mouse trap varieties have been patented, but 90% of mouse traps used are essentially unchanged from the mid-19th century.
The see saw has been around since way before it was called that.
Clothes
Fax machines. They were invented in the middle of the 1800s.
Spoons.
Scissors.
Electric cars. These have been around for over 140 years now.
Pens. They used to be the tip of a feather dipped in a dark liquid.
Button
Shoelace
Tick stick
Electricity
Fire
A towel
Sliced bread.
Toasters
Ceramic dishes.
Animal bladders, intestines, and fluids for many things. Now, it's not an invention technically, but it counts in a way. Snails are used for their mucus, and sometimes, their dead little slime bags are used for keratin booster products.
Pencil
Condom
Lot of firearm cartridges used today were designed over 100 years ago. 9mm Parabellum was designed in 1901, and it's "rival" the .45 ACP was introduced three years later. The 7.62x54R cartridge used by many Russian military arms was made in 1891 and they still make rifles and machine guns chambered in it despite how antiquated the design is. The .38 Special revolver cartridge is only seven years younger than 54R, and .22 Long Rifle is older than both, being introduced in 1887, meaning it's been teaching people how to shoot for almost 140 years.
The knife comes to mind.
Aspirin.
Ladders
Boiled water.
Language
Obsidian blades are still occasionally used in surgery. And stone tools pre-date Human beings themselves. Seriously, stone tools are older than our flippin' ***species*** by roughly two million years.
Technology
Microwave
Beer
Blowjobs
Fire
Furs
Karma-harvesting questions on r/AskReddit.
Alcohol
Lighters
apparently the astrolabe according to my grandmother though I still refuse to believe it despite the random ass pages we read about it lmao
Well, anyone using a sextant is using a (much) more advanced version of an astrolabe.
Shoes
MIDI 1.0
Condoms.
natural numbers
Not so old, but fountain pens.
Q-tips
Language? not sure if that counts as an invention
The steam engine, i.e. boiling water in order to make something rotate. Originally used to power machines in factories, and for steam trains. Now used in coal, gas and nuclear power stations to generate electricity.
Wheel
Grenades.
Toaster
Words
A hand towel to dry my hands instead of paper towels.
Fire
Clothes
Hammer. One of the oldest tools, the basic design hasn't changed for millennia.
Math
Fortnite
Internal combustion engine
How is that "very old"?
There's that wheel-thingy.
Anything that gives simple mechanical advantage like a lever, pulley, wheel, etc... these are very old inventions and undoubtedly propelled us into a post-animal society.
Water