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ITT: We list what we think are the 5 most important inventions/creations
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ITT: We list what we think are the 5 most important inventions/creations in human history

I will start

1. The internet
2. The gun
3. Plastic
4. Electricity
5. Medicine
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>>412163
> 4. Electricity

That seems to be the power source of the rest, therefore it is more important than them, bar medicine and the gun. But even their modern selves are utterly dependent upon electricity.
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>>412163

1 Agriculture
2 Anal sex
3 Writing
4 Dildos
5 The spear.
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>>412163
5. Toilet
4. Sewer
3. Soap
2. Water filtration
1. Gender theory
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> Electricity
> Invented

Don't let /sci/ know this or they'll laugh at us forever
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>>412189
What i meant was we learned to harness it
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1. Spear formations
2. Fire
3. Writing
4. Flight
5. Nuclear physics
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>>412195
>>412189
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>>412163
The Internet was not an invention. It was many types of computers and phone lines. You may be thinking of the Web.

Medicine is a lot of inventions and discoveries.
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>>412207
That torch looks like a cup?
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>>412163
1. Flint knapping
2. Fire
3. Agriculture
4. Writing
5. Fossil fuel use
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1. Stone tools
2. Fire
3. Agriculture
4. Gunpowder weaponry
5. Toss up between a couple industrial era technologies. Let's say steam engines.
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In order of importance from greatest to least:

1. Language
2. Writing
3. The ability to set fires
4. Agriculture
5. Stone tools
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1. Writing
2. Walls
3. Doors
4. Windows
5. Shelves

Everything else is purely decorative
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>>412279
>Implying windows aren't just doors for light
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>>412216
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Telephone/telegraph is a much more important invention than internet.
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>>412364
They used the same technology, they are synonymous with one another.
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>>412390
That's why I lumped them together.
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>>412390
Really just glorified semaphore towers
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>ctrl+f "printing press"
>0 results
What's wrong with you people?
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>>412548


Anal Sex is WAY more important than the printing press.

And most of the others are stuff that was necessary to get to printing presses.
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1. anal
2. bussy
3. bussy
4. bussy
5. bussy
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>>412627
Anal sex wasn't invented but discovered.
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>>412655

That's what you think.
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