Around the time people started drinking coffee instead of beer,lots of changes in art, math, and science began to happen. To use a phrase from startup culture, coffee was very disruptive.
A lot of things were happening in that (very long) period, most of them with a much more obvious connection to changes in learning and culture than coffee. A connection would require better evidence than contemporaneity.
I guess I could say that when I was born computers started happening. My, I am so disruptive.