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Old 11-19-2018, 01:58 PM
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Best inventions, beer and gasoline. Everything else comes from those.
 
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While it's great to be nostalgic, there's nothing on that list that I'd ride off into the distance with any reasonable expectation of making it back.
Why? People were doing just that long before you were born.
 
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Originally Posted by 2AMGuy
For the average person, I think the two most beneficial inventions of the 20th Century was the internal combustion engine and the computer.

Just think about the amount of physical work and manpower hours that were reduced by these devices.
Which begs me to ask if this map was a bit different before the computer and the IC engine was invented.



 
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Of all the the modern conveniences that we have electricity is the last one id want to give up. I can **** in a bucket but hell if I can figure out an alternative way to make my tv work. Without electricity no computers, refrigerators ect.
 
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