Reminds me of this sign in the bathroom at a local bar:
Some of our earliest records are beer recipes. Not only is 1862 thousands of years too late, there wasn’t even anything of note that year. Totally arbitrary ass-pull.
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 4 days ago
1873? Maybe 1873 BC but there’s history from 6000 BC and documentation from 2800BC.
There’s not even anything that happened in 1873 to use that date.
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 3 days ago
My not very generous guess is someone wanted to give the impression of something being really old without a clue of what really old is.
Like it wouldn’t surprise me if it turned out bread was accidentally invented when someone screwed up an attempt to make beer.
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Like it wouldn’t surprise me if it turned out bread was accidentally invented when someone screwed up an attempt to make beer.
Hell, some people have theorized that civilization started because you need to settle down for a while to brew beer.
Apytele@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
There have been holes found in Neolithic caves with what appears to be beer yeast. The only organism we’ve been that symbiotic with longer is dogs.
turdas@suppo.fi 4 days ago
1873 would be around when tractors were invented, so it’s possible there was some specific kind of plough that was invented in 1873 that Google’s AI search result showed to whatever dimwit made this meme.
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Wiki says the tractor was invented in 1812 with first real one in 1839.
So 1873 doesn’t match anything.
turdas@suppo.fi 4 days ago
The “first real” tractor wasn’t invented in 1839 (that one wasn’t self-propelled, it was just a movable steam engine). The first actual self-propelled traction engine was produced in 1859, and obviously many traction engine-related inventions followed in the next couple of decades.
The plough page you linked earlier mentions several different kinds of ploughs being invented around 1873 – for example the stump-jump plough which was invented in 1876. It’s entirely possible that there was some kind of plough invented in 1873.
However, the most likely explanation is probably this: John Deere created the first steel plough in 1837. The author of this meme found this fact and mistakenly swapped the 3 and 7 around, arriving at 1873.
danekrae@lemmy.world 4 days ago
My first thought was the story of Odysseus pretending to be insane, ploughing his field but sowing salt instead of seed.
rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 days ago
Yes, to avoid going to war in Troy. He was coerced into ending the charade when a different Greek hero placed his infant son Telemechus in front of Odysseus’ path
Thunderbird4@lemmy.world 3 days ago
It’s literally one the fundamental inventions of human civilization. In the series Connections with James Burke, he describes how, if there were a collapse of modern technology (and this was 1978), those who survived would find themselves returning to the plough as the technological foundation from which to rebuild society.
general_kitten@sopuli.xyz 4 days ago
closest thing would be the invention ofstump-jump plough in 1876.
teslekova@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
Stump jump plough?
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Source: OOP’s ass.