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How did Food Triage lead to The Internet?

7 steps · 7 domains · 301,983 years

  1. Food Triagesince the species began · 300,000 BCThe hard-won knowledge of what is safe to eat and how cooking turns poison into food — the difference between a full belly and a fatal mistake.
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    Control of Fire~1,000,000 BC · 1,000,000 BCThe ability to keep, feed, and eventually start a fire at will — humanity's first external source of energy.
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    Distillation lives or dies on gentle, steady heat — hot enough to boil the light fraction, never so hot it boils everything at once.

    Distillation~800 AD (alembic systematized in the Islamic world) · 800 ADBoiling a mixture and catching the vapor, so that the parts that boil easiest come off first and condense back to a purer liquid. Separation by temperature — it makes nothing new, it only sorts.
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    Clear glass lets the distiller watch the boil and condensation and resists the acids and hot vapors that corrode metal and clay.

    Glass~1,500 BC (vessels) · 1,500 BCSand melted with a flux of soda or plant ash until it fuses into a transparent solid — shapeable while hot, rigid and chemically inert forever after.
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    Lenses~1286 AD (spectacles) · 1286 ADGlass ground into curved surfaces that bend light to a focus — correcting aging eyes, and, stacked in tubes, revealing worlds too far or too small to see at all.
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    Photolithography1957 AD · 1957 ADPrinting with light: project a circuit pattern onto a light-sensitive coating on a silicon wafer, so billions of microscopic transistors can be made in a single exposure.
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    Integrated Circuit1959 AD · 1959 ADAn entire circuit — transistors, resistors, wiring — manufactured as one piece on a single sliver of silicon.
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    The Internet1969–1983 AD · 1983 ADA network of networks with no center: any computer can reach any other by passing packets through whoever is in between.
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