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Take the year you were born, from the links below, and list what invention/s were introduced in that year.

1930 - 1939

1940 - 1949

1950 - 1959

1960 - 1969

1970 - 1979

1980 - 1989

1990 - 1999


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5081. Inventions and you........

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#8 | 367 days ago

Glenda, no need to look it up, just put down fire.
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#1 | 367 days ago

(Edited by Nick__)

1968

  • The computer mouse invented by Douglas Engelbart.
  • The first computer with integrated circuits made.
  • Robert Dennard invented RAM (random access memory).
  • Video game console was invented by  Ralph H. Baer
1968  
#2 | 367 days ago

1983

  • The Apple Lisa invented.  that's cool, cause i prefer macs even though i use microsoft
  • Soft bifocal contact lens invented. that's cool cause i will need these later in life probably
  • First Cabbage Patch Kids sold. that's cool cause i had like 7 in my childhood
  • Programmer Jaron Lanier first coins the term "virtual reality". that's cool cause i love this song
#3 | 367 days ago

Nick__ wrote:

1968

  • The computer mouse invented by Douglas Engelbart.
  • The first computer with integrated circuits made.
  • Robert Dennard invented RAM (random access memory).
  • Video game console was invented by  Ralph H. Baer
Was this the same year Al Gore invented the internet? 

1980
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The Hep-B vaccine.

Pretty slow year on the invention front, although a lot of significant historical events took plce - most notably a little snot nosed kid by the name of JSwol being brought into this big bad world! 
#4 | 367 days ago

The video disk was invented
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#5 | 367 days ago

(Edited by Lobotomy Jones)
Pretty good year for technology.
 

#6 | 367 days ago

1985 - Windows program created by Microsoft
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#7 | 367 days ago

1965

Astroturf
Soft contact lenses
Nutra sweet
Compact Disc by James Russell
Kevlar by Stephanie Louise Kwolek


Interesting combination of things....
#8 | 367 days ago

Glenda, no need to look it up, just put down fire.
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#9 | 367 days ago


1975:

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#10 | 367 days ago

richard_cranium wrote:
Glenda, no need to look it up, just put down fire.
You do mean 


1968  
#11 | 367 days ago

Nick__ wrote:
You do mean 


Hahaha.  I had to explain to a tourist once the meaning behind "Second City."  She actually asked me where the second part to the city was.....I was rollin'. 
#12 | 367 days ago

1974 - Post-it Notes and Liposuction. Sweet.
1974  
#13 | 367 days ago

Nick__ wrote:
You do mean 


No, I mean the actual event of cavemen discovering fire.
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#14 | 367 days ago

jswol54 wrote:
Hahaha.  I had to explain to a tourist once the meaning behind "Second City."  She actually asked me where the second part to the city was.....I was rollin'. 
You should have sent her down to Lower Wacker.
#15 | 367 days ago

Lobotomy Jones wrote:
You should have sent her down to Lower Wacker.
Or Lower Lower Wacker. 
#16 | 367 days ago

1981


both of these are obsolete today
#17 | 367 days ago

1964

  • Acrylic paint invented.
  • Permanent-press fabric invented.
  • BASIC (an early computer language) is invented by John George Kemeny and Tom Kurtz
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#18 | 367 days ago

The "Pill"...thank god it wasn`t a year earlier, I might not have been here getting warnings from the COC police. :)
#19 | 367 days ago

about.com sucks, so I found my own list of '67 inventions:
The handheld calculator (apparently it cost $2,500 dollars, lol)
Ronald McDonald & the Big Mac
The ATM
Rolling Stone Magazine
The heart transplant
High fructose corn syrup
Counter top Micro wave oven (first actual consumer version)
The smoke detector
Ultimate frisbee
Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (or what we now call the internet)
The beer cozie (or koozie)
KerPlunk
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#20 | 367 days ago

(Edited by Lobotomy Jones)
marcus_nyce wrote:
about.com sucks, so I found my own list of '67 inventions:
The handheld calculator (apparently it cost $2,500 dollars, lol)
Ronald McDonald & the Big Mac
The ATM
Rolling Stone Magazine
The heart transplant
High fructose corn syrup
Counter top Micro wave oven (first actual consumer version)
The smoke detector
Ultimate frisbee
Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (or what we now call the internet)
The beer cozie (or koozie)
KerPlunk
I don't know how people survived without beer koozies.
#21 | 367 days ago

marcus_nyce wrote:
about.com sucks, so I found my own list of '67 inventions:
The handheld calculator (apparently it cost $2,500 dollars, lol)
Ronald McDonald & the Big Mac
The ATM
Rolling Stone Magazine
The heart transplant
High fructose corn syrup
Counter top Micro wave oven (first actual consumer version)
The smoke detector
Ultimate frisbee
Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (or what we now call the internet)
The beer cozie (or koozie)
KerPlunk
KerPlunk was my sh*t back in the day. 
#22 | 367 days ago

1946 the micro wave oven imagine that
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#23 | 367 days ago

(Edited by ML31)
  • Astroturf invented.  
  • Soft contact lenses invented.
  • NutraSweet invented.
  • The compact disk invented by James Russell.
  • Kevlar invented by Stephanie Louise Kwolek.

Not too bad a list....

Also that year was the first Space Walk and the respirator was invented.
#24 | 367 days ago

kramer wrote:
1985 - Windows program created by Microsoft
And they are using the term "invented" there very loosely....
#25 | 367 days ago

Kenne wrote:

1981


both of these are obsolete today
Isn't windows to this day still a DOS shell?
#26 | 367 days ago

Either I need a new prescription for my glasses, or I've been hanging around here existing with the C.O.C.

Mine says (1970) the Floppy Disk was invented.
#27 | 367 days ago

Greatest thing ever was created in January of 1975, ME!
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#28 | 367 days ago

ML31 wrote:
And they are using the term "invented" there very loosely....
Invention, innovation, tomato to-mah-to.  That was the only thing listed for 1985.
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#29 | 367 days ago

marcus_nyce wrote:
about.com sucks, so I found my own list of '67 inventions:
The handheld calculator (apparently it cost $2,500 dollars, lol)
Ronald McDonald & the Big Mac
The ATM
Rolling Stone Magazine
The heart transplant
High fructose corn syrup
Counter top Micro wave oven (first actual consumer version)
The smoke detector
Ultimate frisbee
Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (or what we now call the internet)
The beer cozie (or koozie)
KerPlunk
The heart transplant
High fructose corn syrup


Somehow that seems fitting.
#30 | 366 days ago

1966

Fuel Injection for cars...and Me.
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#31 | 366 days ago

1964

  • Acrylic paint invented.
  • Permanent-press fabric invented.
  • BASIC (an early computer language) is invented by John George Kemeny and Tom Kurtz.
#32 | 366 days ago

Nick__ wrote:
You do mean 


No I thnk he meant this:

#33 | 366 days ago

mojo wrote:
No I thnk he meant this:

Are they underneath a giant cow?  
#34 | 366 days ago

jswol54 wrote:
Are they underneath a giant cow?  
and a chocolate milk cow at that!


mmmmmmm!!
1968  
#35 | 365 days ago

(Edited by janet011685)
  • Windows program invented by Microsoft.
And that is all.  No really.  That's the only one listed.  indecision

Ah, Christ, it didn't copy/paste right.  See Kramer's post.  Why didn't anyone TELL me after 13 hours of my post being half blank?  Buncha jerks.
#36 | 365 days ago

(Edited by texas_tornado4261)
1961

Pampers
Lava Lamp
Valium
Non-Dairy Creamer
Peace Corps
Texas Sales Tax was Introduced
Six Flags Opened in Arlington, TX
Born:  Goerge Clooney, Micahel J Fox, Woody Harrelson
#37 | 364 days ago

janet011685 wrote:
  • Windows program invented by Microsoft.
And that is all.  No really.  That's the only one listed.  indecision

Ah, Christ, it didn't copy/paste right.  See Kramer's post.  Why didn't anyone TELL me after 13 hours of my post being half blank?  Buncha jerks.
I would've if I could've but I couldn't so I didn't.  In other words, I haven't logged on for a couple days myself or I would've at least been nice enough to tell you.
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