The most exciting event in the history of the world.

Says more about the mentality of the commentator than anything to do with history.

I don't think there's any kind of objective standard for determining how exciting an event is. For some maybe the opening of a sports event might be the most exciting. Pretty sad that IMO.

Events I recall causing excitement were things like the assassination of JFK, the Moon shots, fall of the Berlin Wall. 9/11.

 

so you're saying that a sports commentator said something stupid? i've never heard of such a thing!

 

the de-popularizing of political (and hopefully some day economic) empire.

and before that,

the completion and placing into service of the first roads, aquaducts, and railways.

also the firs mass produced cpu on an ic.

the first penetration of anything made on earth above earth's atmosphere

and the first landing of anything made by humans on earth, upon some other object in space.

the first voice transmission. the first wireless voice transmission. the first manned flight.

the first railway locomotive.

the first scheduled rail passenger service.

the invention of concrete, and of iron.

the inovation and aplication of scientific method.

the first use of perspective in visual arts.

the first cave painting.

the first poem.

the first use of written language for anything other then inventory lists.

the first steel knife and the first iron cooking pot.

the invention of inks and paints

even the first flaked stone cutting edge

i find any and all of these more exciting then any sporting event, entertainment, or war.

 

That's a fascinating list.

 

I would think the most exciting would be when Western Lithograph Company made and sold the calendar, Golden Dreams, with Marilyn Monroe's first public nudes around 1949 or 1950.

 

both the invention of agriculture, and the use of nuclear energy as a weapon of war, overshadow the event depicted, in their significance to human history.

 

most exciting event, to me, would have to be that one small step, on earth's moon.

 

The transition from prehistory to history is the most exciting event in history.

 

The first ping packet received (data transmission) using an actual real life implementation of "IP over avian carriers" which was originally a joke, released as an RFC on April 1st, 1990 (april fools day).

Think TCP/IP, except that instead of datagrams being sent over a wire, each one is sent using it's own homing pigeon.

 

the first time man made fire

 

They say now that fire was tamed by earlier hominids and not homo sapiens, so I don't know if that counts.

If we are counting pre-history then I'd say the Big Bang,

 

I was going to say the first time I realized my dick was more than a pink rod to piss through. But that would be crass and childish, so I won't. Probably wouldn't be nearly as

exciting to anyone besides me anyway.




In a modern sense, I think that the day JFK was murdered changed our country AND the world forever. It proved to me that the forces of evil will do anything to gain power over others and that those forces still exist and continue today. You had to BE there in order to know the feeling about how this country felt that ----we were going to move FOREWARD and we

were going to be OK. We didn't ----and we aren't.

 

To morons and salesman, everything they do is the most important event in history.
Everyone knows the most important event in history was when you took consciousness - that it goes badly thereafter is incidental

 

depends on whose world we are talking about

 

This is inevitably the most important event in history because if the transition from prehistory didn't happen there wouldn't be no history! But not sure it is the most exciting

 

My guess is that it was probably pretty dull for all its significance for the future.