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Cheap, everyday 2025 items that would have radically altered history
Posted on 6/23/25 at 11:24 am
Posted on 6/23/25 at 11:24 am
Take a normal item we take for granted in 2025, send it back in time, and predict how it would have changed world history.
Ex:
A $30 pair of walkie talkies (with batteries) would have changed the outcome of the Civil War.
Ex:
A $30 pair of walkie talkies (with batteries) would have changed the outcome of the Civil War.
This post was edited on 6/23/25 at 11:34 am
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Posted on 6/23/25 at 11:26 am to weagle1999
quote:
A $30 pair of walkie talkies would have changed the outcome of the Civil War.
So would a box of Fleshlights.
Posted on 6/23/25 at 11:27 am to weagle1999
Covid-19 would have come in handy in 1938 Germany.
Posted on 6/23/25 at 11:29 am to weagle1999
A condom used 200 years ago could have prevented you from making this thread.
Posted on 6/23/25 at 11:36 am to weagle1999
ziplock bags
zip ties
flashlights
zip ties
flashlights
Posted on 6/23/25 at 11:39 am to weagle1999
quote:
A $30 pair of walkie talkies (with batteries) would have changed the outcome of the Civil War.
The frick? A single pair?
Posted on 6/23/25 at 11:39 am to weagle1999
Polyester. Wouldn't have needed cotton. Nor the labor required to harvest it. Demographics of the USA changed dramatically. But no SEC football.
Posted on 6/23/25 at 11:41 am to weagle1999
A map would have prevented Archduke Ferdinand's driver from getting lost and allowing his assassin to kill him. Neither of the world wars happen because of this. Think what the Soviet Union is able to accomplish if 27 millions citizens don't die?
Posted on 6/23/25 at 11:45 am to Clyde Tipton
quote:
The frick? A single pair?
Yes . Provide a pair to Lee and one of his generals at Gettysburg for instance.
Posted on 6/23/25 at 11:45 am to Snipe
quote:
Covid-19 would have come in handy in 1938 Germany
You wanted to unleash the common cold on the 3rd Reich?
Savage
Posted on 6/23/25 at 11:46 am to weagle1999
Antibiotics are the biggest one, I'd think.
Posted on 6/23/25 at 11:50 am to BottomlandBrew
quote:
Antibiotics are the biggest one, I'd think.
Plastic silverware, spoons, knives, forks…
Posted on 6/23/25 at 11:54 am to weagle1999
quote:
A $30 pair of walkie talkies (with batteries) would have changed the outcome of the Civil War
Tannerite
Posted on 6/23/25 at 11:57 am to weagle1999
Fentanyl
Posted on 6/23/25 at 11:59 am to weagle1999
If Lewis and Clark had a Jeep Wrangler (with gasoline) in 1804.
Posted on 6/23/25 at 12:01 pm to weagle1999
quote:
$30 pair of walkie talkies (with batteries) would have changed the outcome of the Civil War.
So in your world only one side gets this item? Not both sides?
If so, there is no shortage of weapons that you could give one side of any conflict that would have changed the world.
Posted on 6/23/25 at 12:11 pm to weagle1999
Also, I'm sure there are some big events I can't think of where a zip-tie or bic lighter would've come in pretty handy.
Posted on 6/23/25 at 12:16 pm to ragincajun03
quote:
If Lewis and Clark had a Jeep Wrangler (with gasoline) in 1804.
This would have sped up the invention of the rubber duck by decades.
Posted on 6/23/25 at 12:32 pm to Rex Feral
Didn’t the archduke actually basically get killed because he did use a map of where the assassins were? From what I understand, the archduke decided to dramatically change his route at the last second after seeing a map of where the Black Hand was supposed to be. The archduke was trying to explain the changes to his driver, who spoke a different language than the archduke and had trouble understanding what the archduke was saying. The driver had to keep swerving and making a bunch of sudden u-turns after misunderstanding what the archduke told him to do. 1910s cars weren’t really built to make all of these sudden turns. So this ended up severely damaging the car, and the car ended up becoming stuck in front of a sandwich shop where Gavrilo Princip was getting his lunch. And the rest they say is history.
It’s generally believed that the archduke would have survived if he would have just gone on the original route.
It’s generally believed that the archduke would have survived if he would have just gone on the original route.
This post was edited on 6/23/25 at 12:42 pm
Posted on 6/23/25 at 12:34 pm to weagle1999
Antibacterial Hand Soap.
This post was edited on 6/23/25 at 12:35 pm
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