#fork?

@snack-at-midnight @potatonugget7 @bittydragon

To badly paraphrase Douglas Adams: Anything invented before you are 35 is awesome, but anything that comes around after that is scary. It's the natural order of things.

There wasn't one general moral panic over the fork so much as a 600-year slow burn of derision. In the modern era, every country that the fork was introduced to was totally freaked out by it, before eventually accepting it.

For our younger readers, here is a bit of a history lesson:

Phones used to be plugged into the wall. These days you might know a few people who still have these antiques and call them "landlines."