Comments on: Top 10: Most Important Moments in History

By: tony

tony — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 16:27:44 +0000

public access to the WWW has to be up there or at least mentioned in “The Invention of the Telephone”??
Great site btw, keep’em coming!

By: WMMattler

WMMattler — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 04:31:16 +0000

While I’m thinking about it, I’m calling you out Matt. There’s a button in the top left hand side of this page it says “submit a list”; use it. We’ll most likely post is then Bruce Evans can comment on it.

By: wmmattler

wmmattler — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 00:53:06 +0000

We tried to limit it to events that still affect us all today. Communism was a red herring… railroads opened the west but aren’t really in use… you following me?
My favorite moment in history was in the fall of 1987 and literally involved a haystack and a girl 3 years older than I… I left that one out as well…

By: Bruce Evans

Bruce Evans — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:48:49 +0000

Indeed some remarkable moments and achievements. They definitely belong in the top 100 of all time, but the top 10? I would have thought that indeed the battle of Hastings would have a place here, or the discovery of America. The creation of the USSR in 1917, the erection of the iron curtain. Or earlier, the invention of the wheel. The invention of the steam engine or just after that the introduction of rail roads.

By: MattII

MattII — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 01:48:32 +0000

What about the Battle of Hastings, the second Battle of El Alamein, the Assassination of Julius Ceaser, The Battles of Crecy and Agincourt, the development of the Smallpox Vaccine, the discovery of X-Rays, the First practical steam enginem etc. If you’re going to claim the most important moments in history, at least have the decency to do research on what the most important moments actually do some research to find out which moments actually might be most important (as opposed to just being end points for already more-or-less decided issues).