The first _________ .

[RoJoHen]

A lot of human history is marked by the invention and discovery of new technologies. Henry Ford and the Model T. The Wright Brothers and the first airplane. Computers, the internet, cellphones, bridges, skyscrapers....

All of these things are huge breakthroughs that we can look up and learn more about. They made the history books.

But what about other things? Things we take for granted but have no way of ever learning about.

For example, pants. Up until a certain point in human/caveman history, we were all running around naked. Then, one day, some pre-historic man or woman was like, "You know what? My genitals are cold. I think I'm going to cover them up."

And then, somewhere down the road, all of the other cavemen were like, "OMG, our genitals are also cold! How did you DO that?!"

Thus, pants were invented.

I think these kinds of things are fun to think about. Who was the first human to kill an animal and decide, "I bet this mammoth would taste so much better if I put its meat over a fire for a while." Right then and there, cooking was invented.

 

[scotpens]

Who was the first human to kill an animal and decide, "I bet this mammoth would taste so much better if I put its meat over a fire for a while." Right then and there, cooking was invented.

Link.

(Okay, so I went for the obvious. So sue me.)

 

[Melakon]

. . .Who was the first human to kill an animal and decide, "I bet this mammoth would taste so much better if I put its meat over a fire for a while."

For some reason, this reminded me of George Carlin's "I am Fuck! Fuck of the mountain!"

 

[_C_]

I wish I could have been a piece of thread on Neil Armstrong's space suit when he first stepped on the moon.

 

[Asbo Zaprudder]

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTLyXamRvk4[/yt]

 

[Gary7]

It's often overshadowed by the invention of electricity, but master of cold was an essential part of what helped us make way into the industrial age.

We all have it (in the 1st world anyway), everywhere around us. Cold air from refrigerators, freezers, and air conditioners. We take it for granted and don't think anything of it, except in those very rare cases when we've run out of power. But techniques for the harnessing of cold were initially conceived even before electricity. People came up with rather novel means of stalling the decay of ice. Cold has enabled us to preserve food and influence temperature. It has played an essential part in setting the stage for other advancements, but is often overlooked.

 

[MacLeod]

A lot of human history is marked by the invention and discovery of new technologies. Henry Ford and the Model T. The Wright Brothers and the first airplane. Computers, the internet, cellphones, bridges, skyscrapers....

All of these things are huge breakthroughs that we can look up and learn more about. They made the history books.

But what about other things? Things we take for granted but have no way of ever learning about.

For example, pants. Up until a certain point in human/caveman history, we were all running around naked. Then, one day, some pre-historic man or woman was like, "You know what? My genitals are cold. I think I'm going to cover them up."

And then, somewhere down the road, all of the other cavemen were like, "OMG, our genitals are also cold! How did you DO that?!"

Thus, pants were invented.

I think these kinds of things are fun to think about. Who was the first human to kill an animal and decide, "I bet this mammoth would taste so much better if I put its meat over a fire for a while." Right then and there, cooking was invented.

However some firsts are over shadowed by events, take the computer for example which is the worlds first? Colissus whos existance was kept secret for decats, ENIAC or do we go even older

http://inventorspot.com/articles/worlds_first_computer_antikythera_mechanism