Indeed. That's one of the reasons why the "Before Present" time scale (that uses 1/1/1950 as the epoch) is sometimes called "Before Physics" (another one being that 1950 is less and less "present", of course)!

> that uses 1/1/1950 as the epoch

I guess we can say this is when humankind reached adulthood, became able to drink and got a driver’s license. And a gun.