Top 5 inventions ever

[Godwynn]

God.

The best inventor out of all of 'em.

Who invented God?

 

[VX250]

Who invented time?

 

[Godwynn]

Who invented time?

The abstract thought that the universe is split into seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years, decades, centuries, and millenniums?

 

[Luckymoose]

Slavery
Absolute Power
Fire Arms
Condoms
Viruses that Kill poor countries

 

[Snowball]

I haven't seen music anywhere.

 

[EconomistBR]

The abstract thought that the universe is split into seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years, decades, centuries, and millenniums?

You forgot Capitalism's favorite: the quarter

 

[warpus]

Tacos
Taco Sauce
Printing press
...
Tacos?

 

[cubsfan6506]

No-one heard of the Wheel?

Huh. Me want wheel.
Thank you. I was going to post the same thing.

 

[aaglo]

1. Use of Fire
2. Agriculture
3. Writing
4. Wheel
5. Harnessing of Electricity

 

[intj_rational]

1. Writing
2. Computers
3. The Internet
4. Agriculture
5. Mathematics

 

[Erik Mesoy]

I'll opine that fire isn't an invention, and list:

Agriculture, which opened up for specialization
Wheel, ... mobility
Writing ... transfer and storage of information
Mathematics, ... prediction
Electricity, ... transfer and storage of energy

The computer would be next, but it's heavily dependent on the above.

 

[Eran of Arcadia]

A dozen people have already said fire isn't an invention. I will thus nominate (like I already did) "the process of rubbing two sticks, or banging tow rocks, or whatever, together" and point out that techniques and processes are inventions as much as objects.

 

[RedRalph]

Language, undoubtedly. More of an innovation than invention, but ye know what I mean

 

[Lillefix]

Fire and electricity are discoveries, but I see noe reason not to lump the together with the inventions in this thread.

 

[Eran of Arcadia]

Anyways, how long did we know about electricity before we could harness it for our own purposes?

 

[Enkidu Warrior]

Art
Language
Agriculture
Writing
Mathematics
Science
The Internet

 

[JohnRM]

1/ Fire

A discovery, not an invention.

 

[JohnRM]

In no particular order...

The Wheel
Currency
Writing
Printing Press
Internet

 

[Ecofarm]

4-way tie: Samantha Fox

The only 4-way tie that Samantha Fox might be involved in is...

Nonetheless, that dirty, slutty porker couldn't get my phone number.

Taco Sauce

1) Taco Bell Fire Sauce = God.
2) Agriculture
3) Biointensive Agriculture
4) Organic Agriculture
5) Ecologic Agriculture

 

[Eran of Arcadia]

A discovery, not an invention.

Have you even been reading this thread? Everyone has already said that, and I explained how it still involved invention anyways.