20 ‘Modern’ Products That Are Actually Super Old

Living in the modern world is great. You can eat a mixture of custard frozen right inside your own home, which is heated for the non-custard beings inside, and top it with a bag of candy you got from a machine before rolling on a condom and enjoying some consequence-free sexual activity, disposing of it in a toilet with almost no risk of rodents climbing up to bite your butt, and then 3D print a lighter.

Could some medieval guy do that?

Yes, actually. It turns out all of that technology was available to some medieval guy, or at least a lot earlier than you probably would have guessed. We have ancient recipes for foods we still can’t usually be bothered to make at home, pictures in motion and color long before either was commercially available and even evidence that our ancestors played and fought like modern people. 

Which is why one Reddit user asked r/AskReddit, “What invention is way older than people think?”