Rolling was introduced to steel production in 1783 by Henry Cort, who successfully improved on earlier primitive attempts to use this technique.
Tylor identified, for example, the earliest form of religious belief as "animism," a belief in spiritual beings, arrived at, he assumed, by primitive attempts to explain the difference between the living body and the corpse and the separation of soul and body in dreams.
But he says that until recently, religious Web sites have been primitive attempts, mostly churches posting transcriptions of sermons or other Web 1.0 offerings.
Searching for actual information requires: a new way of thinking about searching text; and new ways to group text within a page: it is too primitive to attempt hunting information by looking at all text on a page; advanced techniques are needed to split a page into related sections.
The iPad, for example, looks like a primitive caveman's attempt at OS design.
In primitive times some attempted to appease what they believed to be a hostile, vengeful god by sacrificing their children, giving them over to be slaughtered on altars.
Emoji have been around since the late nineties, when Shigetaka Kurita, an engineer working for an early mobile-Internet platform, designed a hundred and seventy-six primitive ideograms in an attempt to add emotional nuance to his digital communications.
This early attempt, while primitive, was the basis for a whole series of amazing – and amazingly useful – robotic arms.
Since patients with LKS have no more means of verbal communication, we suppose they use some "primitive" cues in an attempt to understand what is said to them.
