• Borovicka@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      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”

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        1 year ago

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

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        1 year ago

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