Have you had one great idea that some body else got credit for first?

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have you ever had a big idea, so new and fresh that to you seemed like a major mind blowing breakthrough and then submitted it online only to find out 20 years later, that idea had been used but the credit for it given to another person? This happens all the time. But I just wanted to ask you if you ever came up with a world changer, a super fantastic idea that you thought that nobody on earth has ever come up with and you wanted to take that next quantum step to get that idea online but did not bother to first go get a patent on it? I have. Now that I have realized that people in fact do read my blogs or have in the past, lots of my old ideas that I submitted over 2 decades ago have become reality today, either by sheer coincidence or there might be a percentage of a chance that it was my idea, read by another person, taken that next step, by using it and putting that idea to work? Do you come up with innovative ideas that you think would be an improvement on the old ones? For example, do you sometimes tear the top off a pack of chips only to have the chips fly out all over the floor? Do you think sometimes that maybe the manufacturers of potato chips don't care if we can't close the bag back after opening them cause maybe they think we would just eat them all at once and not need to close the bag to re-open it later and to keep those crispy salted chips fresh until next time? Well, it's ideas like these that fly over corporate heads. They just don't think like people who are ideas people like you and me. People who consider themselves ideas people, like you and me, writers and conversationalists who spend hours every day on social media sites, often keep a daily do-list or ideas book to jot down thoughts, if for nothing more than to keep our thoughts in proper order, are the ones who write stuff and all the other people simply read our stuff casually and sometimes they like to copy our work. Its like that. People not only plagiarize us, they sometimes steal our ideas and run with them all the way to the bank.