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By exist, I mean something you’d be able to study. For example, dinosaurs existed well before 1800 but that doesn’t mean there was a good way for the layman to learn about them.

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[–] proti@lemmy.world 47 points 21 hours ago (2 children)
[–] hoshikarakitaridia@lemmy.world 13 points 21 hours ago

I love that guy

[–] kelpie_returns@lemmy.world 9 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

Thrasyllus sat and looked at boats he didn't own so that we could all Naruto run. Total gigachad of a solo larp icon rh. If Thrasyllus only has one fan yada yada

[–] proti@lemmy.world 2 points 14 hours ago

We stand on the shoulders of giants.
I imagine if I wasn't into planes I would too be into ships, maybe bridges while we're here.

[–] MagicShel@lemmy.zip 10 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

I love computers, but the thing I love is increasing efficiency and solving puzzles. But I'm terrible at building things and I'm not great at hard kinds of math. I also have ADHD, and without my meds I'm pretty useless.

I think I'd just be an alcoholic and sometimes laborer — probably with missing digits or something. That was a depressing train of thought.

[–] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 4 points 19 hours ago

Are you me? I stumbled into becoming a Business Analyst, and I love it!

[–] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 7 points 19 hours ago

Cooking and gardening definitely. Mechanical keyboards, photography, and home theater…not so much.

[–] Snowpix@lemmy.ca 5 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

Nope! The electric siren wasn't invented until 1905 by William Box. The steam locomotive hadn't been invented until 1802 when Richard Trevithick built the first. Steam engines in general were still in their relative infancy by 1800, and the closest we had to a warning siren before 1800 was a device invented by John Robison that was used to power some of the pipes in a musical organ rather than warn anyone.

Yes. Humans have existed for far longer than that.

[–] Goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 17 hours ago

Yes. History, theologie, architecture and languages always existed

[–] GrayBackgroundMusic@lemmy.zip 3 points 19 hours ago

Some did. I love fermentation and 3d printing.

[–] msokiovt@lemmy.today 2 points 20 hours ago

One of my special interests is numerology, and it did exist prior to 1800 (in fact, 8th century BC is when it was first documented). I personally love studying the numbers (I had done this myself) and seeing how I act based upon the numerological characteristics.

Fun fact: I have a Chaldean number of 3, whereas my producer has Chaldean numbers of 7 (legal matrix nym) and 9 (his pseudonym).

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 2 points 17 hours ago (1 children)
[–] pastermil@sh.itjust.works 3 points 14 hours ago

She's a witch! Burn her!

[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 2 points 19 hours ago

I guess my special interest is pop culture. Prior to 1800, I suppose I would have been more into books

[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 1 points 16 hours ago

I’m interested in etymology and grammar, so I would have been on the bleeding edge of social science, but yes