Top 25 innovations past 25 years. Guess #1.
 

Top 25 innovations past 25 years according to Lemelson-MIT program.

#1 to be announced today. Can you guess what it is?

2. Cell phone
3. Personal computers
4. Fiber optics
5. E-mail
6. Commercialized GPS
7. Portable computers
8. Memory storage discs
9. Consumer level digital camera
10. Radio frequency ID tags
11. MEMS
12. DNA fingerprinting
13. Air bags
14. ATM
15. Advanced batteries
16. Hybrid car
17. OLEDs
18. Display panels
19. HDTV
20. Space shuttle
21. Nanotechnology
22. Flash memory
23. Voice mail
24. Modern hearing aids
25. Short Range, High Frequency Radio

The internet. Duh...

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Agreed. :thumbsup

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Was the internet invented in the past 25 years? Maybe they'll say the "World Wide Web" or even the browser.

I'd move the ATM up to about #4.

TiVo is better than voice mail.

Recurring billing is pretty good too. :thumbsup

Internet or they call it called the "word wide web"

Yep. I believe it was 1989

History of the mobile telephone which later became what we call cell phones today: ... 1978

History of Computing Industrial Era 1976 - 1977
The Industrial Era. 1976 - 1977. The Third Generation of computers started approximately in this era.

so much for the 25 years...

The internet was invented by the department of defence as a means of communication if we were attacked by russia. that was in 1969

The www (world wide web) in the other hand was invented in 1989 in switzerland

Hmm... they left Caller ID off the list and CDs were invented in 1969

the fleshlight??..

They should have used one of the other great inventions. Google.

bingo we have a winner :winkwink: :thumbsup

I believe it should be Google.

the internet

the interweb

or inflatable dartboard

I'm guessing double ply toilet paper

That stinks.

I'm going to hazard a guess and say the microwave as a cooking device.

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That would definitely be a biggie, but microwave ovens are older than 25 years.

It's gotta be the www.

I'm also surprised to see that ass-to-mouth came in at #14. That would have easily been in my top 3.

carbon paper... lol

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This list is a littlebit pre-occupied.
How about gentechnolgie in food and the discoveries that have been made here?

Yeah, I was gonna mention that

Cell phones had to be number one.

Viagra and/or desktop strippers

Longer lasting Sea Monkeys.

the toilet

I always knew something was strange about Europe. :error

the Clapper?

I wouldn't put the Space Shuttle on that list.

They say NASA stands for Need Another Seven Astronauts

And to demostrate how great an invention this is GFY and http://ratemypoo.com will be featured.

Air bags....without these there would be a lot of sad...lonley and broke strippers.

Why is DVD technology not on the list ?

must be the internet, or the internets as some would say lol

Let me say it again..

The internet was invented by the department of defence as a means of communication if we were attacked by russia. that was in 1969

Let me say is again...

that was called ARPANET. You're off by 5 years

"1974
May
Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn publish 'A Protocol for Packet Network Internetworking', which established the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP). This is also the first time the term Internet was used."

So they chose ...

#1. The internet (as we know it)

The internet