Modern Technologies That Are Way Older Than You Think

Drone - 1964

The first unmanned aerial vehicle was the Lockheed D-21B. (In the photo to the right, it's the smaller aircraft piggybacking on the larger one.) It conducted reconnaissance missions in enemy airspace over China between 1969 and 1971, but was eventually discontinued because it had a high crash rate and President Nixon introduced smarter satellites for taking photographs.