The Invention Dig

Every invention, buried at the depth it happened. The ground beneath you is 3.3 million years deep. Scroll to dig — or warm up first.

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Which came first?

Pick the older invention.

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Born inOptional. Puts you, your parents and grandparents on the ruler, and every invention becomes “before you” or “after you”.

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The bottom of everything.

4.54 billion years down. The Earth has just formed. Nothing will live here for hundreds of millions of years — and nothing will be made for over four billion.

Every invention you passed, from the first stone flake to the phone in your hand, fits in the top 0.07% of this dig.

⛏️ THE INVENTION DIG

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Which came first?

Pick the older invention.

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Dates are the earliest known example, marked c. where approximate; many are disputed and new finds push them older. Compiled mainly from Wikipedia and published archaeology. Inspired by the scroll-scale pages of neal.fun.