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Question:
how old do you think that the twisted pair cabling technique is ?
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If rope qualifies, then prehistoric.
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Well, rope can be used to send signals (see divers, mountain climbers, etc.), so it probably should qualify. 
OTOH, if the OP means electrical signals...
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Well arguably, even with rope, the signals start and end as electronic signals in the brain. So are you not transferring electronic signals from one person to another even when just using rope?
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It was Grokh the Caveman who invented ropes. Unfortunately it started raining, just when hanging out his first ropes to dry and shortly after he discovered that whet ropes hanging in trees are quite good at conducting electrical signals. It is unknown why he did not discover anything after that.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Close, but not quit 
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I can't see it as a doodle on the Google home page, which is where I get all my age-related knowledge from, so I have no idea.
But based on office conversation, age isn't important, we need to know how much did it weigh when it was born?
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I don't math.
But A.G. Bell in 1881 is listed as the "inventor".
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So, 1209 years old then? More than I thought 
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Hmm, 2020 - 1881 = 1209???
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We agreed not to bring "math" to this conversation, stop breaking the rules!
I was just poking GenJerDan to see if he would end up actually doing the maths or not.
I don't do rescuing animals from captivity, but I guess the cat is out of the bag now...
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I guess I misread the icon. 
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Correct, I always thought it had to do with network cabling technique but it turns out to be much older!
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In the days when my parents were young, some books were sold on a subscription basis: Every month you received a booklet, sort of like a small format magazine, but with no ads or other disturbing elements. After two to three years, the series was completed. Then you could ship all your booklets to a service that would bind them in a hardcover format and a leather back with gold printing, giving you a Real Book Look.
My parents' four volume popular science "Our Knowledge" (or in Norwegian: Vi Vet) books from 1950-52 was my major source of scientific information throughout my childhood. I had read about microwave ovens more than ten years before I ever saw one in real life. I had read about transatlantic TV relays, about ENIAC and MANIAC and mercury tube storage, how soap is made and how it works, about marrying traditions among abos in Australia, and how one searced for mineable mineral reserves by detecting tiny variations in gravitation.
And I learned about twisted pair cables and pupin coils. I would be lying claiming that I understood all of it in my early teenage years, but I knew it was there. When I later encountered it in real life, it came as no surprise to me.
(On the other hand: Some of the articles may be shocking to modern readers, such as the 1951 article about the enormous blessing of DDT, that will solve any imaginable insect attack on our crops...)
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Again, he demonstrates that he knows more than I.
No longer content to just be able to make phone calls, or turn on or off my computer at will, he know demonstrates his ability to bring up Amazon Prime Video, start an episode of "The Expanse", and enable subtitles because he clearly doesn't understand spoken English...
It took me longer to work out how to turn the damn things off!
Mind you, I like his taste in programs.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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You should appoint him as your technical advisor! 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark Twain
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And change your name to Jon.
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Eeeh... I was actually thinking of Dilbert/Catbert, but for some reason I confused the two owner/cat pairs for a momement. I meant to suggest that you change your name to Dilbert.
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Don't forget Bill[^] as well!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Maybe he can write some articles on CodeProject or a HowTo website to teach us these things 
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Meanwhile, my cat couldn't figure out how to use the litter box after I put the cap on it...
The results will shock you 
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Litter boxes and changes ... not good combination, with cats.
Dij doesn't want to know if I buy a different brand of litter ...
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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A friend of mine had a cat that didn't need a litter box. You were supposed to leave the lid of the toilet seat up, otherwise the cat wouldn't be able to use the toilet. After the cat had done its business, it climbed up on the cistern to operate the flusher knob.
One fun side is that this was the third generation of toilet trained cats: The cat mother taught its kittens how to do it, with very litte human intervention or training. At least that is what my friend told me. (At first I thought everything was a joke, but I did get a chance to see that the cats were in fact using the toilet as described.)
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That's amazing 
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