alt Hacker News> some ancients almost lost their minds due to this new development
Platus lived 254 – 184 BC. Sundials are from 1500BC. While it's a great quote, it certainly wasn't a new invention when he wrote it.
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eschulz • last Sunday at 9:49 PM
Being invented doesn't mean that they became commonly used. Many ancient inventions took thousands of years to rollout and be adopted by the vast majority of humans.
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xandrius • last Sunday at 9:58 PM
Yep, they definitely could have bought it from Amazon.
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WalterBright • last Sunday at 11:28 PM
Using a vertical stick to track the sun's position goes back much, much further.
Electric cars were invented in 1881 a full 4 years before the first internal combustion car.