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[–] [email protected] 60 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Well, wouldn't it be weird if it was the other way around?

"Yooo, check this out, I made a new invention, it's called a can opener!"
What does it do?
"idk"

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Surely you understand that the remarkable part is the duration between the inventions, not the chronological order.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Crazy amount of not understanding jokes in this thread.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean i can invent a time machine opener right now.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

It's called a screwdriver

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The elevator shaft was invented before the elevator. Tom Scott made a video about that