We use many, many items today that we cannot imagine our lives without. But what about the times before those items were invented? How did people manage then? The tweeple of course had plenty of gyan and lots of memes to share about ‘People Before’ – this is a new Twitter trend that that is going around.
This is somewhat accurate. According to Wikipedia, “George Andrew Darby patented the first European electrical heat detector in 1902 in Birmingham, England” while the first automatic electric fire alarm dates back to 1890.
This tweet refers to ESP (ma-ki-mamta version) as demonstrated by a popular Hindi movie as a viable precursor to the doorbell.
I really don’t care when brakes were invented, but this silly little clip made me laugh out loud.
They sat together and actually spoke to each other. However, even then the admin did nothing, according to this commentator.
That isn’t polite, but it is pretty accurate.
There are many, many questions that Quora answers; which remained unanswered previously.
We spent a lot of time guessing.
Brushing before then would have been (and still is for many), like this.
It was mostly prayers – and those didn’t pay a lot of interest.
To protect oneself from guns, a cycle would rank as one of the most useless of forms of defence, however.
This is hilarious – but probably not inaccurate.
I'm pretty sure that no one played carrom before the carrom board was invented, but these clever kids give us yet another example of good old Indian jugaad.
That is a pretty impressive collection of Kohli emojis!
…There were only peeping toms!
The juddering ride quality of state transport buses can rival any massager feels this commentator.
There couldn’t possibly have been the sound of guns before the invention of guns, but this is funny because of the famous UP police incident it represents!
Couples had to be really inventive (and presumably contortionists as well) to find some privacy.
…There were vocal cords.
The crowing cockerel continues to be a natural alarm clock to this date.
...There were teeth, said Happydent
People before the advent of the smartphone, used to go out, interact, chat, play... adults too, not just kids.
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