1905 is a milestone of modern physics, because it's when Special Relativity came out.

That's older than the transistor, which was commercialized in 1951. But it's also older than the vacuum tube triode, which was invented in 1906 or 1908.

In 1905, there were no amplifiers of any kind (though there were relay switches). There was almost no radio. The triode was a necessary invention for almost all of analog electronics.

The high five thing always fucks me up. Mostly because I'll see it in movies about WW2 and other historical things that it shouldn't be in and I always have to say something lol.

Chicken tikka masala was supposedly only invented in the 1960s - 1970s. Butter chicken only in the 1950s. Now I'm scared to look up naan for fear of learning it was invented by Nestle in 1994 or whatever.

You know how you can push some buttons on your wall and your house magically warms up or cools down? I know people who were alive before that existed.

Fun fact: boomers entered the workforce before credit scores existed. Credit scores were created in 1989, but people treat them like they were in the bible.

Dick Van Dyke is older than sliced bread.

This is a dumb one, but I've watched ASMR reiki videos for stress-relief and at least one has said words like "Reiki is an ancient Japanese technique which blah blab blah" Yeah... It was made up in the 50's by some dude.

Invention that will seem obvious after it's introduced: a phone camera that can film in landscape while being held vertically.

Invention that's not obvious but I'm sure it's a brilliant idea: edible, bacon-flavored wrapping paper so that pets can open their own presents!

Before high fives? Tipping their hat I guess? A subtle nod?

I can't comprehend a world without high-fives.

What were people doing before high fives??

This:

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@The_Picard_Maneuver low fives? 🤔

Doom was first time ran on any device only in 1993!

The term mullet was coined by the Beastie Boys in 1994

Oh jeez I'm old

Not because I was around when this stuff was invented but because I went to school way back when they actually taught you stuff, including when things were invented

No diss, but Kwanzaa was invented in the 1960s. It's not like a directly african tribally descended thing, though inspired by some (mostly Swahili and Zulu), it's something made for black american pride and reflection.

I don't know but I know for sure that the fax machine was invented before the telephone

Everytime I see high fives mentioned, I am reminded of a MadTV skit parodying Antiques Roadshow where they are showing off a cell phone and one guy says "And weren't these found to cause cancer?" To which the specialist replied "Actually, no. It turns out all forms of cancer were caused by high fives."

A good hardy handshake and a cigarette.

I think it was handshakes, back pats, and ass pats