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#230708 - 23rd May 2008 3:10pm
Greatest Inventions Of The 20th Century
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MattLFC
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Just had a few thoughts running around my head, what inventions do you consider to be great?
Personally, my top 3 would be:
- Digital Camera's
- Compact Discs (CD's leading onto DVD's et al)
- The Internet
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#230713 - 23rd May 2008 3:19pm
Re: Greatest Inventions Of The 20th Century
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MattLFC
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I mean tech inventions (hence being posted in the Digital forums). Penecillin wasnt really an "invention" as such anyway, and whilst it is awsome, it killed off phage therapy, which I feel is actually a massive blow to our health system.
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#230762 - 23rd May 2008 6:52pm
Re: Greatest Inventions Of The 20th Century
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MattLFC
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Of course, but that is still my 3. And no amount of argument will change that.
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#230935 - 24th May 2008 12:50am
Re: Greatest Inventions Of The 20th Century
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MattLFC
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Hehe, CD's to me were more important in the 20th century, I dunno why tbh, but hard drives never really "changed" the way we use and share data. They have always seemed pretty boring, but I do agree, where the hell would be without them haha!
I think whilst hard drives have remained quite static and boring, CD's, in one form or another, progressed to change our lives so much in the 80's and 90's. Hard Drives really became exceptional in the very latter 90's, when they finally started reaching decent capacities and breaking technological barriers.
GigE's were mega for the 20th century too, they really made the internet "flow" like it should do, and opened up the future of high bandwidth internet leading to the 10GigE and 100GigE ports.
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#230949 - 24th May 2008 1:05am
Re: Greatest Inventions Of The 20th Century
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WADDI
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The MiniDisc
The Panasonic 3DO
The Phillips CDI
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#230954 - 24th May 2008 1:07am
Re: Greatest Inventions Of The 20th Century
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MattLFC
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They were actually invented in 412BC, by Gnaeus POMPeii
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#230957 - 24th May 2008 1:12am
Re: Greatest Inventions Of The 20th Century
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WADDI
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IMHO Minidisc was the fore father to MP3.
and the 3do and CDI brought on Gaming on CD's which lead to the likes of the PSX and the dreamcast and beyond (not forgetting the sega mega cd tho)
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#230958 - 24th May 2008 1:13am
Re: Greatest Inventions Of The 20th Century
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Mi_Craig
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I know its not strictly Digital..but it could be applied to the Digital World....
I personally think Cable Ties are the greatest Invention ever. Whoever invented them must be a millionaire...
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#230959 - 24th May 2008 1:18am
Re: Greatest Inventions Of The 20th Century
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WADDI
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What about good old coaxial cable.
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#230963 - 24th May 2008 1:30am
Re: Greatest Inventions Of The 20th Century
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WADDI
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Sky+ is pretty great. Ive just been away for a week and come back to all my favourite shows recorded and archived for me ready to watch when Im ready.
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#230964 - 24th May 2008 1:34am
Re: Greatest Inventions Of The 20th Century
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WADDI
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would be even better if Next gen Sky+ or SkyHD incorporated a DVD recorder for ease of copying to take with you on the move to watch elsewhere
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#231050 - 24th May 2008 12:14pm
Re: Greatest Inventions Of The 20th Century
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SoundLad
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There are no great inventions imho cause the inventions which have been made have ruinied the World.. What would of happened if roswell never happened ? Would we have all this technology ? No.. Ever since that crash theres been 1000's upon 1000's of new ideas and what nots and whats it done ? Ruined the planet cause people are dependent on them and when they break ??? All hell breaks loose... But if i was to choose one the silicon chip why?? cause it lets me do most things.. Watch tv, play ps2, chat away on this website, wash my clothes on a cycle, sets my alarm, allows me to get paid and so on.. If the silicon chip was never invented then we would all be how we used to be.. Thanks Aliens who crashed 
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#231051 - 24th May 2008 12:16pm
Re: Greatest Inventions Of The 20th Century
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MattLFC
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I think its fair to say the silicon chip would be nothing without the PCB though
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#231066 - 24th May 2008 1:38pm
Re: Greatest Inventions Of The 20th Century
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Brian
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Hehe, CD's to me were more important in the 20th century, I dunno why tbh, but hard drives never really "changed" the way we use and share data. They have always seemed pretty boring, but I do agree, where the hell would be without them haha!
I think whilst hard drives have remained quite static and boring, CD's, in one form or another, progressed to change our lives so much in the 80's and 90's. Hard Drives really became exceptional in the very latter 90's, when they finally started reaching decent capacities and breaking technological barriers.
Judging by your mugshot, you're a bit young to remember when the rate of change of hard drives was really amazing. The curve has flattened off now, barring a major technical advance they struggle to increase the recording density by a really significant amount.
I got my first software job in 1982. We coded on a DEC PDP-11, with three hard drives attached, which meant a stack about four feet tall and 18 inches square. The TEN MEGABYTE media itself was removable, say about four inches deep and 12 inches in diameter (for any other old DEC people out there, I'm trying to describe an RL02). Yes, that was 12 programmers writing applications with a combined 30 Megs of hard drive space between them.
Four years later, in another job, where I had to set up the development system from scratch, then a 300 Megabyte drive had suddenly become a box about nine inches square and four inches high.
Now THAT is what you call a decent rate of progress!
Brian.
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