What were people doing before high fives??

Fun fact: boomers entered the workforce before credit scores existed. Credit scores were created in 1989, but people treat them like they were in the bible.

Do people want to go back to the system that was used before credit scores? Where the person serving the loan just made the choice based off if they thought you seemed trustworthy? Aka were a white man who went to the same church as them.
- Maybe the answer is less reliance on a debt based economy. Maybe the answer is to not bake into the fabric of society a mechanism that makes a lifetime of debt a foregone conclusion. Kill the loan shark for all I care. Why does everyone need a loan? Because it's built to require one.
- It's so cute you think that credit scores aren't racist.
  https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/11/how-structural-racism-plays-a-role-in-lowering-credit-scores.html
- as a non-american: what the fuck is a credit score? who the fuck uses credit?
- That's not so bad even
  Aka were a white man who went to the same church as them.
  in this case, because that's a local direct connection as opposed to centralized.
  The world works better when people help those closer in the society to them first. That's also how routing metrics work in computer networks. This might seem gibberish, but I had a less fuzzy explanation, just forgot it.
  Ah. Evolution. Connections form dependency both ways. And there's always evolution in the society. It's in your interest that racists would mostly connect to other racists, while smarter people to other smarter people, and dumber people to other dumber people, for evolution to work. Except, of course, that should preserve some mobility between these groups so that smarter people born in not so smart environment could change it, again for social evolution.
  It's important, somehow mostly talking about evolution in present time is attributed to fascists, while it can be seen everywhere.
  In some sense who you are, who the person giving a loan is, and how that affects getting a loan is a predictive mechanism. It should work or fail for evolution.
  Credit scores are a path around that similarly to Soviet planned economy being a path around markets, see how it worked that USSR, rich with resources beyond belief, had mostly poor and even malnourished population.
More than boomers entered the workforce - much of GenX did too
- I'm an early Gen X. I was working shit jobs until the 90s/my early 20s.
  It isn't like many of us were planing on buying a house by 1989.
Credit scores are as old as the simpsons!!
Credit scores may be relatively new, but Equifax as a company existed since 1899 as "Retail Credit Company" and has always done some form of credit reporting.
It's not going to get better until we start killing office buildings full of these people.

1905 is a milestone of modern physics, because it's when Special Relativity came out.

That's older than the transistor, which was commercialized in 1951. But it's also older than the vacuum tube triode, which was invented in 1906 or 1908.

In 1905, there were no amplifiers of any kind (though there were relay switches). There was almost no radio. The triode was a necessary invention for almost all of analog electronics.

Meh, you could do signal amplification via transformers and tuned resonators.
It sucked, but it was possible.
That's how we had telephones before we had tubes.
- Transformers can increase voltage while decreasing current, or increase current while decreasing voltage, but can't increase a signal's power.
That's a cool story, thanks for sharing!
Wtf is a triode?
- God damn do I love it when I get to share a relevant Technology Connections video https://youtu.be/0UKCUMghTrc
- three electrodes
- Like a transistor only larger, less efficient and more fragile.
The wright brothers flew almost 2 years before special relativity came out.

Chicken tikka masala was supposedly only invented in the 1960s - 1970s. Butter chicken only in the 1950s. Now I'm scared to look up naan for fear of learning it was invented by Nestle in 1994 or whatever.

Naan is safe.
General Tso's chicken on the other hand, is another 1960s invention.
Same with orange chicken.
In fact, most "Chinese" food that Americans or Brits eat was invented in the 60s or 70s.
- Some of it was invented by Japanese-American restaurateurs (fortune cookies are one example), who were in the same business as the Chinese ones: using their knowledge to make cheap, satisfying food that the locals would like, authenticity being no consideration. It all got labelled as “Chinese”, because that’s where they assumed the cooks were from.
- Oh, also, chicken tikka masala was invented in Scotland in the 1970s
- And most of it wholly invented in the US, too. Hardly any Chinese takeout is legitimate food that is eaten in China, but an Americanized facsimile. Iirc almost all US Chinese restaurants are legit sourced from the same company in terms of most of their recipes and even their decorations and stuff like the "chinese zodiac" placemats
- I find it preposterous to believe that nobody made these dishes before the 1960s. Surely people did. They just weren't popular or have the branding associated.

This is a dumb one, but I've watched ASMR reiki videos for stress-relief and at least one has said words like "Reiki is an ancient Japanese technique which blah blab blah" Yeah... It was made up in the ~~50's~~ 1910s by some dude.

If reiki(dot)org, which claims to be the international center for this malarkey training is true, they apparently say some different forms of it were around in the 1910s, but I saw absolutely nothing about it being ancient.
- Why did you spell that with a "(dot)" and then include an actual link? The reason people use (dot) or (at) is when they don't want software to automatically see something as a link or an email address, and yet you intentionally added a link.
- Yeah, it looks like you're right. Not sure what I read years ago. This is what Wikipedia says:
  Mikao Usui originated the practice in Japan. According to the inscription on his memorial stone, Usui taught his system of reiki to more than 2,000 people during his lifetime. While teaching reiki in Fukuyama, Usui suffered a stroke and died on 9 March 1926.
  So, apparently before 1926. Still, really far away from "ancient".

The high five thing always fucks me up. Mostly because I'll see it in movies about WW2 and other historical things that it shouldn't be in and I always have to say something lol.

You know how you can push some buttons on your wall and your house magically warms up or cools down? I know people who were alive before that existed.

Oh, and salmon sushi was invented in the 1980's by the Norwegian fishing industry. Before that, no salmon in sushi.
https://www.npr.org/2015/09/18/441530790/how-the-desperate-norwegian-salmon-industry-created-a-sushi-staple
- bestest sushi
- Who started putting avocado in sushi? I hate that shit. It seems like everyone thinks it's key ingredient in sushi rolls now.
You know multiple people who are 123 years old???
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_conditioning
- I was thinking of central heat and air conditioning accessible to the masses for home use. But you are right that the history of HVAC goes back much farther than that.
- Maybe either didn't have it necessary it wasn't widely used, or knew somebody (who was alive 20-30 years ago). Or both.
I still can't do that

Carbonara was invented around 1950.

No respect will be afforded to Italian cuisine based on this fact

If you really want to rustle their jimmies, remind them that tomatoes came from South America, and weren't introduced until westward exploration.
- Why would anybody care? The only thing that matters is who uses them to make good stuff.
- While true, this can be done by Italians to other nations with Worcestershire sauce, baklava and principate though.
  And borsch wasn't red. It's called because of the plant that was the main ingredient.
  Which is mostly not used now because of its intentionally bred toxic relative being a really problematic invasive species in all of former USSR and around.
  And another thing that "wasn’t introduced until westward exploration" is English-speaking Americans
- Also corn, bell peppers and chocolate.

Dick Van Dyke is older than sliced bread.

Sliced bread was the best thing since Betty White
I fucking love bread, but I'm not sure sliced bread is better than Dick Van Dyke. We may have gotten it all wrong from the get-go.

The term mullet was coined by the Beastie Boys in 1994

George Kennedy calls someone a mullet head in Cool Hand Luke.
- The term has been around meaning a fool or idiot. Also the fish. The Beastie Boys were the first to use it to refer to the haircut.
- Always upvote a George Kennedy reference

Invention that will seem obvious after it's introduced: a phone camera that can film in landscape while being held vertically.

Invention that's not obvious but I'm sure it's a brilliant idea: edible, bacon-flavored wrapping paper so that pets can open their own presents!

Invention that will seem obvious after it's introduced: a phone camera that can film in landscape while being held vertically.
Why don't we have this??
People turning their phones to film in landscape will probably be one of those things that'll look silly in old media once this is changed.
- Increases the hardware pixel count by ~1.6x while being wasted every shot.
  Just turn your fucking phone.
  That being said, half our phones have like 3 cameras on the back we don't use, so sure, throw a fourth on, why not?
- Phones have square camera sensors.There's no reason that shouldn't be a thing already.
Motorola made a phone wirh that feature.
- Makes sense. It seems like Motorola is always trying to innovate and then it just doesn't catch on. I still say it'll be standard one day.

No diss, but Kwanzaa was invented in the 1960s. It's not like a directly african tribally descended thing, though inspired by some (mostly Swahili and Zulu), it's something made for black american pride and reflection.

I actually thought this was common knowledge.

Back before the 1970's if a woman was travelling she'd have her husband or a porter carry her bags. With the rise of women travelling alone there was suddenly a market for wheeled bags. Men didn't want them because they made men look too weak to carry their own luggage.

Fellas is it weak to not carry your 50lb suitcase everywhere? Definitionally yes but oh my god how fragile.

Clearly the High V

This dude is in sorely need of Appian transit

Almost no "traditional" recipes are older than 150 years.

Edit: i meant meals, not basic fare.

Traditional food : bread
- Show me a single loaf that is older than 150 years
  I'm waiting
Porridge has been around since roman times.
- Is it comparable to today's oatmeal? Is porridge a separate food from oatmeal?
You: “Almost no”
Comments: pff look, some example!
Reading comprehension is in the dirt.

Before high fives? Tipping their hat I guess? A subtle nod?

Gentlemanly tug job.
- "well, and a kind 'hello' to you too, good sir!"
Before high fives, in the 60's it was "Peace✌️"
Go even further back, lifting your helmet's visor to show your face.
My money's on enthusiastic handshakes and cheering. Source: old movies.

It’s 2025 and my invention idea from the 1980’s, the glow in the dark toilet seat, still hasn’t taken off. Makes me want to quit inventing.

I can't comprehend a world without high-fives.

Everytime I see high fives mentioned, I am reminded of a MadTV skit parodying Antiques Roadshow where they are showing off a cell phone and one guy says "And weren't these found to cause cancer?" To which the specialist replied "Actually, no. It turns out all forms of cancer were caused by high fives."

Though they may seem ubiquitous with civilised life today, the common home cube was not invented until 1991.

I still keep my home cube stored in a climate controlled tank, next to my fingerbox collection. They say you're not supposed to do this anymore, but I've heard horror stories that say otherwise.
What is a home cube? DuckDuckGo isn't helping.
- Dude, you don't have your home cube yet? Let's all laugh at the cubeless nerd!
- Americans trying to take credit for everything again.
  Clearly it's a Scandinavian invention. Ikea sell one called Skïrëwöltm
- It's just like the cubes they have in like public libraries and town halls, but smaller and cheaper so you can have one at home.

Oh jeez I'm old

Not because I was around when this stuff was invented but because I went to school way back when they actually taught you stuff, including when things were invented

We live closer in time to the first T-Rex than the first T-Rex does to the last Stegosuraus

No way T-Rex did high fives
- Due to its tiny arms and non-pentadigit hands the T-Rex would commonly high five with its teeth. This lead to the T-Rex being unfortunately labeld a carnivore.
- They were just threes

What were people doing before high fives??

This:

fr fr no cap

IIRC, people were slapping five (and then ten) in the 60s. As with a lot of cultural things, black people were doing it first.

I don't know but I know for sure that the fax machine was invented before the telephone

For some of the kids here: SPAM of the mail variety was not a thing before 1995.

The Monty Python sketch that the name came from.

Doom was first time ran on any device only in 1993!

https://it.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciabatta_(pane)

While planking is today celebrated as a modern viral sensation often shared on social media platforms for its humor and creativity, few realize that this activity has historical antecedents dating back to the Renaissance era. Recent research reveals an intriguing connection between contemporary planking trends and a lesser-known pastime from 15th-century Italy.

In 1485, Girolamo Tavernetta, a polymath of the Italian Renaissance known for his contributions to art and science, documented a unique form of entertainment in his manuscript "Scherzi di Corte." This activity, referred to as "il disteso" (literally translated as "the stretched"), involved participants lying flat on elaborate tapestries spread across grandiose banquet halls. Far from being mere physical endurance exercises, these competitions were judged not only for their ability to remain motionless but also for artistic grace and the preservation of the intricate fabric designs.

Tavernetta's detailed accounts describe how Florentine nobility engaged in "il disteso" during lavish feasts, where participants would vie to display the most elegant posture while stretched out on luxury rugs. The social gatherings turned into competitive arenas as attendees appreciated those who could maintain perfect stillness without disturbing the underlying designs of their ornate tapestries.

To add a visual element to his descriptions, Tavernetta included sketches in his manuscript depicting participants adorned in elaborate period costumes frozen in various states of "il disteso." These images bear an uncanny resemblance to modern planking photos, suggesting that this Renaissance pastime served as both a precursor and inspiration for today's viral sensation.

Centuries later a possible decendant, Spencer Tunic, had the briliant concept to remove their clothing.
That's called Twister.

In the US, women were often not allowed in bars, up until the 60’s and 70’s.

McSorleys in NYC was men only until a 1970 legal ruling, and didn't have a women's restroom until 1986.
Their motto prior to 1970 was "Good Ale, Raw Onions and No Ladies"
- Nothing more manly than being surrounded by dudes and raw onions while getting drunk because you’re too much of a wuss to go to therapy or even address emotional trauma yourself.
  I also like how they had a gender neutral bathroom.

@ThePicardManeuver low fives? 🤔

low fives? 🤔
in fact, yes.
- I think I might start saying "give me some skin".

I think it was handshakes, back pats, and ass pats

A good hardy handshake and a cigarette.

Fist bumps, obviously.

Dapping. Its called dapping. To dap someone in greeting.

I'm confused, does OP want to know what people were doing before high fives or what was recently invented?

No but really what did they do before high fives?

Slap hands in line, like a faster, more violent handshake.
There was the low 5 slap back, my man.
Shake hands?

Under our nose is overcoming group thinking.

Bro punch

What is that? I'm picturing Everclear and Prime.
Back in my day it was called goose juice, and had Gatorade

I feel like, if there's stuff happening out there that you haven't heard of today, it's because you're not looking. We're assaulted daily by what everybody is up to across the world. This tweet tried really hard to be deep and profound and instead, to me, kind of sounds like somebody who is just generally out of touch and got completely blown away to learn that desk bikes exist and kids love Minecraft.

You haven't read that infamous xkcd strip have you?
https://xkcd.com/1053
It's not about not knowing something exists. It's asking what new things will people later on assume "always" existed
This tweet tried really hard to be deep
No it doesn't