It's nowhere near Friday, so you're not going to turn this into that age-old rhetorical question about what the greatest thing before sliced bread was. I approve of this.
Well, as it turns out, that question isn't as rhetorical as people make it out to be. In fact, as it turns out, when Sliced Bread made its debut in 1928, it was marketed as "the greatest forward step in the baking industry since bread was wrapped." So the greatest thing before sliced bread was apparently wrapped bread. It would seem bread-related inventions were pretty stiff competition back then.
Anyway, since we now know when Sliced Bread came about, the next time you hear that something is "the greatest thing since Sliced Bread," you can be sure that it is better than the following great inventions of the 21st century:
- Scotch Tape - 1230
- Jet Engine - 1930
- FM Radio - 1933
- Nylon - 1935
- Color TV - 1940
- Slinky (Unrelated: Large spike in children's head injuries from falling down stairs) - 1943
- Atomic Bomb - 1945
- Transistor - 1947
- Credit Card - 1950
- Solar Cell - 1954
- Laser (Not mounted to sharks until 2009) - 1958
- Astroturf (Since outlawed by Crash Davis) - 1965
- Pong - 1972
- Gene Splicing - 1973
- MRI (A Personal favourite of Loyal Readers Mark and Jim) - 1977
- Cell Phone - 1979
- Prozac - 1988
- HTML (Lead Programmer - Al Gore) - 1990
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