Best invention
 

OK, I'll narrow it down a bit. Best invention in your lifetime. For you, what has it been?

Um were computers invented before 1994? :laugh:

I'm going to assume we can allow prior inventions, in which case the internet is the easy answer [obv. the computer etc came first].

The Original Playstation

:love:

Yep, anything goes

Just a little :laugh:

Coffee. :love:

*Gags*

The internet. Sky+ too.

:worship: ipod

Dis

Cars..

But PS1 was pretty awesome.

If Pro Wrestling counts as an invention, then Pro Wrestling also. Everyone that's bored should get there ass in the WrestleMania thread at 00:00 tonight [Sunday]. Free streams will be provided and it's one trillion times more exciting than the super bowl and the world cup combined.

written language

of my lifetime... the internet. (well, the WWW)

Affordable mobile phones and calls should get an honourable mention.

I'd be lost without a mobile. Not so much for texts or calls, just the safety aspect. Makes you laugh really, we managed before them! Same with the 'net though. Can't imagine life without it now. It's like some weird feed I actually need. Not want, but need :joker:

Tomato sauce bottles that are upside down so the sauce comes out in an instant, none of that faffing around shaking it about lark is needed.

I seem to vaguely remember telephone boxes and phone cards - but thank god that's a distant memory!

When I came back from hols one time recently, I hadn't taken my mobi and the public telephone at the railway station was bust............trying to find one was becoming a nightmare to phone for my collection lift home. Very soon someone just took pity and told me to use their one. Funny how you get dependant on a piece of technology and get lost when without it all of a sudden.

What were those radio things you had in cars in the '80's? My mum told me when I was a kid how you could speak into other peoples radios or something and it always fasinated me...

Citizen's Band radio - like American Truckers still have! 10:4 good buddy :joker:

In the UK was the equivalent of bluetoothing folks these days - make dogging arrangements!!!! (I emphasise I never owned a CB radio!!!!!)

Whatever :joker::joker: So could you just speak to anyone, or someone near by? Did you have frequencies or was it guess work?

I never used one myself so cannot be definitive - I think they had a range of 2 or 3 miles or so. The only people I knew who had them were the rich kids from school who had been given cars by their parents for their 17th birthdays. I believe you transmit on a limited number of frequencies and had a "handle". A bit like Claymores or Judas are not really our names! Faux American talk was also compulsory!!!!!!!

It all sounded very naff to me except when these rich kids would tell the funny stories - you could get someone like "foxy lady" talking dirty on it, and it would turn out to be the school librarian or something! :joker:

A bit like how some net sites function these days :hugesmile:

HAZED

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Yep. Jordan. Kerry Ferry agrees