A long, long time ago in an archaic era known as the late 1970's, a bunch of lumberjacks living near the water's edge decided to throw a log in the water. Seeing that it floated, someone finally got the idea to ride it around, mostly as a fun experiment. Quite a few folks seemed to enjoy the log. Even though this big, brown thing floating around in the water really looked like a turd, it was the only method of flotation at the time. Seeing some potential in the log, other lumberjacks decided to throw logs into the water too. Some really were turds and didn't fare too well, some just flat out sunk, but the idea of floating around on the water