Thread: if you could change 1 thing in history, what would you change?

Okay. I will change the date the transistor was invented to 8,000 years ago. Should be fun.

The only thing I can think of is too grim to post here.

Originally Posted by A Roxxor

Okay. I will change the date the transistor was invented to 8,000 years ago. Should be fun.

The transistor would be completely useless 8000 years ago. They didn't have the math to use it for anything interesting, nor the power needed to have it do anything, nor the processing techniques required to make it communicate with the world (display, input, etc). In other words, it wouldn't change much :p

Originally Posted by khh

The only thing I can think of is too grim to post here.

why? (im not asking what it is, im wondering what you could possibly think of that you couldnt post and why it would be to grim )

Actually, the meme could be argued to be of XML, as it's the only language that allows you to define your own, arbitrary tags. The fun part is that you used BBcode style for the tags, and since BBcode is also derived from HTML, it could be argued that you're both right. Or both wrong. I'm going with the latter. And I'd like to add that we're thoroughly off topic.

Originally Posted by Solarflare

why? (im not asking what it is, im wondering what you could possibly think of that you couldnt post and why it would be to grim )

Can't answer those questions without revealing it. It's just that there are so few things in history I'd dare change, as the consequences would be monumental and impossible to calculate beforehand.

Originally Posted by khh

The only thing I can think of is too grim to post here.


The transistor would be completely useless 8000 years ago. They didn't have the math to use it for anything interesting, nor the power needed to have it do anything, nor the processing techniques required to make it communicate with the world (display, input, etc). In other words, it wouldn't change much :p

Then how could it have been invented?

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