Microblog Memes

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.

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.

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.

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~~ 1910s by some dude.

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.

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.

Dick Van Dyke is older than sliced bread.

Carbonara was invented around 1950.

No respect will be afforded to Italian cuisine based on this fact

The term mullet was coined by the Beastie Boys in 1994

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.

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!

Back before the 1970's if a woman was travelling she'd have her husband or a porter carry her bags. With the rise of women travelling alone there was suddenly a market for wheeled bags. Men didn't want them because they made men look too weak to carry their own luggage.

Clearly the High V

This dude is in sorely need of Appian transit

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

Almost no "traditional" recipes are older than 150 years.

Edit: i meant meals, not basic fare.

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

It’s 2025 and my invention idea from the 1980’s, the glow in the dark toilet seat, still hasn’t taken off. Makes me want to quit inventing.

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."

Though they may seem ubiquitous with civilised life today, the common home cube was not invented until 1991.

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