Actually invented in 1979

From Cracked:

For a long time, we’ve been able to pride ourselves on the fact that we’re smarter than our primitive ancestors. Sure, they made fire and the wheel and invented language, or whatever, but we brought technology.

Turns out a lot of our most technologically sophisticated inventions were already invented, which does nothing but remind us how useless we are

This article is awesome.

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