# What single event do you wish you could erase from history?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [June 28, 2000, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-single-event-do-you-wish-you-could-erase-from-history/23946 "2000-06-28T22:56:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![Flang\_Dang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a88e4f/32.png) [@Flang\_Dang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flang_Dang)\
**Post date:** [July 28, 2000, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-single-event-do-you-wish-you-could-erase-from-history/23946/82 "2000-07-28T04:17:36Z")

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> \*Originally posted by 😃 \*  
> \*\*I’d love to undo the decision to name everything [http://www](http://www)…com
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> It’s just too hard to pronounce, doubleyou doubleyou doubleyou. \*\*

In Texas IT departments, we just say “dubba-dub”. TCP/IP is a tragedy, though.

Best answer, though, is the Alexandria Library. Makes one think of the broader concept of all the knowlege that has been forever lost through human history.

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**Author:** ![2nd\_Law](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/2/f475e1/32.png) [@2nd\_Law](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/2nd_Law)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2000, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-single-event-do-you-wish-you-could-erase-from-history/23946/83 "2000-07-29T19:00:45Z")

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The failure of Hero of Alexandria to put together the first steam engine in 100 A.D.

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