Frisbee
It's from 1957, before you were born.
- Maker
- Wham-O
- Type
- Flying disc
- Debuted
- 1957
- Note
- Named after the Frisbie Pie Company
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About
As of 2026, it's 69 years old.
The Frisbee took flight in 1957 when Wham-O bought a struggling plastic flying disc called the 'Pluto Platter' and rebranded it. The name comes from the Frisbie Pie Company, whose empty tins New England college students had long enjoyed throwing around — hollering 'Frisbie!' as a warning.
It spawned entire sports (Ultimate, disc golf), became the default beach-and-park toy, and trained generations of dogs to leap heroically. The simple physics of a spinning disc turned out to be endlessly satisfying.
Aerodynamic, social, and eternally summery, the Frisbee is the pie-tin descendant that turned an empty plate into a backyard institution.
