According to answers.com: " Tech Decks were actually invented by a 12-year old Californian skateboarder named Steven Asher on a rainy day in 1998. Obviously unable to skateboard outside, his idea was to bring it inside. With his imagination, he created 3-inch cardboard replicas of real skateboards and drew graphics on the bottom to enhance their realism. Steven's father, Peter Asher, coincidentally was a toy industry veteran, and used his son's idea as a brand new toy wave, and thus Tech Deck was born. Steven insisted that Tech Decks were to represent the real thing; real metal trucks, real grip tape, real graphics and real wheels. "
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As in the toy. You tell me. The concept came from 1980's finger boards and even older. I have an all metal necklace pendant that is fully functional made in the 70's. Incan tribal games used a device only to be explained as a skateboard. All different sizes of these ranged from 3" toy versions to full sized and were rode on stone courts
a skateboarder was inside because it was raining and he got bored and he got cardboard and other stuff to make it. that was late 1990's