30 'Modern' Things That Are Way Older Than You Think

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It's easy to think of certain ideas as "modern." Especially if these concepts require basic innovations such as electricity.

Of course, as you're about to find out, these things aren't exclusive to us at all -- and in fact have been going on for thousands of years. Our readers compiled a list of "modern" ideas that are anything but. The winner is below, but first the runners-up ...

Entry by sandbunny

CRACKEDCO Think plastic surgery is a modern-day practice? Think again. Ancient Egypt: Rhinoplasty of the dead to make them recognizable in the afterli

Entry by tpxdmd

You could play Duck Hunt in 1936 RAY The Seeburg Ray-0-Lite used g light gun that worked with nearly the same mechanism that Nintendo would uSe 50 yea

Entry by hagiograph

CRACKEDCON ALL. 'EM KILL SORT GOD LET OUT! 'EM ACTUALLY DATES BACK TO... 12092.JD During the Hlassacre of esiers (Albigensian Crusade) hbtants feren n

Entry by John E.

Athletes earning silly amounts of money? EAT 6 They get nowhere near the wages paid to ancient Roman charioteers. One named Gaius Appuleius Diocles ea

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