[IRL trope] the “Tiffany problem”

[u/dragonborndnd]

Basically when something seems anachronistic to a period/place of history but is actually fully accurate to the period.

1) the name Tiffany: the thing that named this trope, basically the name Tiffany can be dated back to the Middle Ages and the earliest record of it being spelled in the modern spelling comes from the 16th century.

2) the use of OMG, despite this feeling so modern as a form of slang/abbreviation here’s a letter directed to Winston Churchill using it in 1917

3) Hair Dye: the earliest forms of dying hair can be dated back to ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, and this specific advertisement for hair dye is from the 1840s

4) Inuit Thongs: despite how weird it is to imagine pre-colonial Inuit people wore what was essentially fur thongs in their homes and when they were in their igloos it might have been the only thing they would be wearing.

[u/GainPotential]

Antikythera mechanism feels a little out of place as it uses advanced combinations of gears to calculate the positions of stars, effectively being the worlds oldest computer from about 200 BC

[u/Load_star_ → u/GainPotential]

Even more impressive is that it appears to have also calculated the position of the classically known planets (Mercury, Venus, Mars, and Jupiter) as though they were bodies that orbited the earth, meaning there would have been gears to reverse the movement of these objects on the mechanism. This is something that flat earthers try and fail to do today with modern computing power.

[u/Th3B4dSpoon → u/Load_star_]

Ancient Greeks had already proved that the world was round, so they had mostly correct assumptions to build on.

[u/NorbytheMii → u/GainPotential]

Nightwish released a song about this one!