A brief history of technology

In rough chronological order. Draw your own conclusions.

• Leather over Fur
• Bronze over Leather
• Horse over Farmers
• Iron over Bronze
• Guns over Iron
• Steam over Sail
• AC over DC
• Cars over Horses
• Cars over Pedestrians
• Tanks over Trenches
• Tubes over Relays
• Transistors over Tubes
• ICs over Transistors
• Calculators over Slide Rules
• CD over LP
• Cassette over 8-Track
• VHS over Betamax
• VHS over Laserdisk
• TCP/IP over ISO/OSI
• RFC822 over X.400
• Ethernet over TokenRing
• The Web over Xanadu
• Modem over X.25
• MP3 over Cassette
• PC over VAX
• HTML over SGML
• HTML over NAPLPS
• HTML over Minitel
• HTTP over FTP
• DVD over VHS
• XML over SGML
• Google over Altavista
• USB over Firewire
• JSON over XML
• REST over SOAP
• BluRay over DVD
• Google over Classifieds
• Twitter over RSS
• Streaming over BluRay
• Facebook over Privacy
• GraphQL over REST