What Are The Most Important Developments in Human History?

[BK613]

The irony of the word 'soccer' is that, in the 19th century, it originated as a jocular term at Rugby School and was later adopted by Oxford. It is short for Association Football.
Source: https://www.lexico.com/explore/whats-the-origin-of-the-word-soccer

So Americans call it what it was originally called by the Brits and the world bitches at us about it.

 

[CorporalCaptain]

The irony of the word 'soccer' is that, in the 19th century, it originated as a jocular term at Rugby School and was later adopted by Oxford. It is short for Association Football.
Source: https://www.lexico.com/explore/whats-the-origin-of-the-word-soccer

So Americans call it what it was originally called by the Brits and the world bitches at us about it.

That's outstanding.

 

[JirinPanthosa]

Also, refrigeration.

Imagine still getting milk deliveries every morning, or never buying any more meat and vegetables than you’ll finish quickly without having to pack it with massive amounts of ice or salt. Or the impact on organ transplants and blood transfusions.

 

[J.T.B.]

Yeah... I don't know how factual/speculative it is either, but it just seems sensible to figure that if rugby isn't played with the foot on the ball, like soccer, then the only other explanation for why we'd call it that, is because the ball is brought to a foot marker, much like in baseball it's sent to bases, & basketball it's sent to baskets.

One theory is that "foot ball" referred to the games of common people which were played walking or running on foot. As contrasted with the mounted sports of the aristocracy.

The irony of the word 'soccer' is that, in the 19th century, it originated as a jocular term at Rugby School and was later adopted by Oxford. It is short for Association Football.
Source: https://www.lexico.com/explore/whats-the-origin-of-the-word-soccer

So Americans call it what it was originally called by the Brits and the world bitches at us about it.

I remember reading about soccer vs rugger in an Evelyn Waugh book back in my teens. So we're not alone in the world after all, I thought.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

We used to have milk deliveries even here in Australia in the 70s but it didn't last long.

 

[JD]

I thought of another one, photography. The development of photography allowed us to capture an accurate image without an artist's individual interpretation for the first time.
I saw something on a PBS show about Borneo that made me think about this thread. Some people who were out studying the Orangutans, saw a mother take a bunch of leaves, chew them into paste, and then rub them on her joints as a pain reliever. It is the first time they have ever seen an animal self medicate their own arthritis. So apparently this kind of behavior isn't as unique to humans as I had thought.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

I thought of another one, photography. The development of photography allowed us to capture an accurate image without an artist's individual interpretation for the first time.
I saw something on a PBS show about Borneo that made me think about this thread. Some people who were out studying the Orangutans, saw a mother take a bunch of leaves, chew them into paste, and then rub them on her joints as a pain reliever. It is the first time they have ever seen an animal self medicate their own arthritis. So apparently this kind of behavior isn't as unique to humans as I had thought.

Related to this I think I said this here elsewhere but there are other species besides silly humans that have a social structure and can do things we wouldn't expect like communicate and form family units and such. This isn't at all surprising, I think chimps in the wild do this too and other simian species.

 

[BK613]

we wouldn't expect like communicate

One of my favorite examples: Honeybee waggle dance

 

[Mojochi]

I thought of another one, photography. The development of photography allowed us to capture an accurate image without an artist's individual interpretation for the first time.

Related to that, I find myself reflecting a lot lately about the fact that we are now living in a time where, for the first time in human history, we can actually see live moving footage & hear live audio recordings of the real people who lived a century ago.

It's one thing to listen to the music of Beethoven or Chopin, that was notated by them, & then performed by others over the years since, but it is entirely different to actually be able to hear, or see the live, animated people of such a long ago time. That is a perspective of history never before available to us.

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[XCV330]

The irony of the word 'soccer' is that, in the 19th century, it originated as a jocular term at Rugby School and was later adopted by Oxford. It is short for Association Football.
Source: https://www.lexico.com/explore/whats-the-origin-of-the-word-soccer

So Americans call it what it was originally called by the Brits and the world bitches at us about it.

so now we have to call baseball rounders to be consistent

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

I love some of those old musicals Ruby Keeler, Ann Miller, Cyd Charisse, got the rhythm going, and the foot tapping, and were nice eye candy too.

 

[Delta Vega]

Electric Guitars

 

[BK613]

so now we have to call baseball rounders to be consistent

And cricketeers liners?