Arterial access via the dorsal radial artery has been used since the late 1970s. Various isolated reports described its use for arterial lines and later as a possible arterial limb for dialysis access. More recently, starting in 2014, investigators in countries such as Russia and Iran began to use the dorsal radial as a site analogous to the radial artery for cardiac catheterization procedures. Due to the vagrancies of modern access to worldly journals and medical education venues, these efforts were underappreciated in many international forums. The internet, specifically social media, turned out to be the conduit that catalyzed the introduction to the dorsal radial artery for many in touch with this technology. Ultimately, in 2017, US and European medical journals published the first reports, as many operators tried to make sense of this variation to the radial techniques and how it might integrate into their daily catheterization laboratory routines.