The Daily Feud: Technology Marches On by ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness [Game Over]

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And the winner is ~drumroll~ **Mahaloth **!!! Woo-hoo! ::flings confetti:: Mahaloth got 7/10 top answers. Very good! Perfect was 316.12.

Thanks everyone! Thanks to you, too, Chocky, for a very interesting topic. It’s cool how our memories overlap through the decades. Does that make sense? :wink:

New one up in a bit.
1. Mahaloth 280.65
2. Hilarity N. Suze 261.29
3. astorian 248.39
4. swampbear 248.39
5. ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness 241.94
6. delphica 232.26
7. 5 time champ 225.81
8. critter42 222.58
9. AuntiePam 219.35
10. Sternvogel 212.90
11. Biggirl 206.45
12. Euphonious Polemic 206.45
13. anyrose 206.45
14. Sublight 203.23
15. zamboniracer 203.23
16. Charlie Tan 200.00
17. fusoya 193.55
18. bibliophage 193.55
19. Gangster Octopus 190.32
20. WormTheRed 167.74
21. Larry Borgia 151.61
22. Manduck 151.61
23. bluecanary 148.39
24. notfrommensa 148.39
25. jali 145.16
26. ShibbOleth 135.48
27. El_Kabong 129.03
28. gonzomax 100.00
29. Dolores Reborn 90.32
30. Liberal 74.19
31. OtakuLoki 32.26

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Well, waddayanow?

The bad-ass Worm, scores mile high above **Gonzo **and **Loki **:smiley:

Drops pies on those pesky peons in the basement

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And me, too. :frowning:

:: catches pie::

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The Worm had a huge advantage. Iceland still uses half the stuff on the list. They are waiting for color TV to come their way. They are waiting in heavy anticipation for the Ipod. I protest.
Otak with 32 points must have established a new low. I applaud . A level that no one will ever reach.

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Yes in fact I do use even more than half of the stuff on the list :smiley:

And yeah, YIKES, OtakuLoki, ,that ain’t good :wink:

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Good lord, next to last? And I worked hard on this one. […shrug…] I suck.

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Woooo! 12th!

<does the “i don’t suck too bad” dance>

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I started to play this one, but it took me 20 minutes to think about which decade cell phones, microwave ovens and GPS’s came into existance.

As it turns out I would have been one decade off on all of them.

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  1. iPod
  2. Sony Playstation
  3. Apple Macintosh
  4. cell phone
  5. laser
  6. artificial satellites
  7. atom bomb
  8. radar
  9. television
  10. radio

ETA: Ah, nuts!

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The interesting thing here is the spectrum of time we think gizmos “appeared”. You can pick many of the top answers and see that they are named in previous decades (often correctly). The top answers may more accurately reflect when they became ubiquitous.

As an example, the first “wireless phone” patentwas received in 1908, the first cell phone patent (what we think of) was in 1969, the first cell phone call was placed in 1973, the first commercial network (in Japan, of course) was in 1979 and they were fairly common in the States, albeit large and clunky, by the 1980s. It’s not unfair to say that they were not ubiquitous until the 1990s, though, which was our top answer for the 90s.

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For reference: 1980s mobile phones, courtesy of the “Child of the 80s” website.

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W00t. 16 in my first try at these.
I’m anticipating another outing, hopefully soon.

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I won! Cool!

I find I can never gauge when I’m going to win, do OK, or fail miserably. I’ve won 3 times, all on random categories I am by no means an expert in. I’ve done horribly on my favorite topics. It really does help to be clueless(which is what I am).

That’s life, I guess.

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That could help explain Swampbear’s success.
:slight_smile: