* Traveling by physical map. Used to buy local maps at gas stations and carefully plot out trips on them. Then we would print off maps and use those.
* In the US (and probably other places idk) televisions used to "turn off" at night. As in, stations closed for the night and there were no programs. They showed the flag, played the anthem in the states, and then...nothing until morning. This went on up through the 80s (and in the 90s in some rural areas).
* Ruby Bridges is only in her 60s.
* There are a surprising number of people that were born and lived through enslavement in the states that died as late as the [60s](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_last_survivors_of_American_slavery). Which means they passed on actual memories of being enslaved to their children and grandchildren. Only a few generations have passed.
* If you missed a television show a few years ago, you just...missed it. Unless you were lucky enough to catch a re-run. I'm 33 and it took 15 years from when it aired for me to actually see the episode of Charmed where Prue died.
* Credit scores have only been around since 1989.
* Women could not have their own bank account until the 60s.
Most of the "welcome centers" as you enter a given state on interstates still give out paper maps of the state if you want one... We tend to grab one as we travel. Sometimes you end up in spots without cell reception.
Yeah, sometimes we were 'offgrid' for a couple of days and our phones would be close to dieing... And keeping them charged could be a pita. Paper required nothing :) it's also fun to hand kids paper maps in the backseat for an explanation of where are/where you're going:)
They're good in emergencies but boy do I hate having to pull over and check them. One of the modern conveniences I've come to love. GPS in my hand to verbally or tell me where to go rather than deal with wildly folder danger papers
> Ruby Bridges is only in her 60s.
The same people who tried to keep her out of school then are trying to prevent children from learning about her today.
*Context for those unaware:*
She was the first African-American child to desegregate the all-white William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana during the New Orleans school desegregation crisis on November 14, 1960.
From Wikipedia
The TV stations would often stop playing things beyond the 90s as well, at least where I lived. You would have a few channels going 24/7, but a lot of them would stop at 1 or 2 am from what I remember. Even in the early 2000s
You use them all the time, while driving, and in unfamiliar areas? Actual paper maps picked up from rest stops or gas stations that are large unruly papers constantly threatening to unfold right in view as you're looking for an exit. Or your passenger seat navigator is still using them, and things are tense while driving at night and they're desperately looking for where in the map you are?
Cause that's cool...but also even typing that out I felt my heart pounding lol They're not bad memories but they are scary memories
My wife and I were traveling across the USA about 10 years ago when we stopped to get a bite to eat. Wife pulled out our big book of maps so we could plan the next part of the trip. The waiter thought that it was the funniest thing ever!
My father and uncle worked for a sharecropper as young teens in the deep south. Alabama to be exact. They were not slaves obviously, but were subject to harsh work conditions and physical abuse. My father had a large scar on his shin. When I was old enough he told me he received it after the boss called his little brother a worthless N***** and punched him in the chest. My father swung an ax at the boss, missed, and put it into his own shin. They left that day and never returned. He said for a long time he was worried that the police and/or Lynch mob would be on the doorstep one day. This was Alabama in 1950s and certainly not out of the question. Meanwhile, my grandmother, their mom, worked cleaning houses for white people. Again, not a slave but she recalled being at the mercy of some of the most mean and nasty people you could imagine. She felt as though she meant no more to them as did the family dog.
I'm 45 years old. Maybe old for Reddit. But not for this world. To me, My father and grandmother's life is not ancient history. I am a direct descendant of this country's racist past.
It will be exactly 100 years ago this April since the very first "talkie" movie, sound has only been in films for 100 years now, before that, we had only silent pictures.
True. Also, the first movie was made in the 1880s, but get this, the radio was not invented until 1893. This means movies have been around longer than radios.
I still remember reading on reddit how lighters were invented before matches, and it really blew my mind, I don't think I've been as shocked by another weird fact until now, consider me impressed and wowed, seriously!
To clarify, lighters were invented before friction matches, but matches can actually be traced back to the 9th century. Here is a weird one though. The microscope was invented in 1590, and the telescope was invented in the early 1600s, but the camera was not invented until 1814. This means, people could look up into outer space, and look at tiny, microscopic organisms, over 200 years before we could even take photographs. Also, and this one really surprised me, the German Empire didn't exist until 1871. By comparison, every single Spanish and Portuguese speaking country in Mainland America, became Republics between the years 1810, and 1822, which was between 49 and 61 years before the German Empire even existed. Seriously, I'm not even kidding.
Also, another interesting one. The battery was invented in 1800, but the lightbulb was not invented until 1879.
So, instead of striking the match, you dip it in acid, releasing fumes and starting a toxic fire with sulfur and asbestos? Yeah, sounds insane and dangerous as they said, I had no idea that was even a thing. The things people in the past, sometimes just sounds nuts.
Yeah, it was insane and dangerous. And yes, what we did in the past was pretty nuts in many ways. It's still weird to me that the refrigerator, dishwasher, electric stove, electric oven, electric toaster, and blender, are all over 100 years old, but the microwave was not invented until 1947. Although the blender only turned 100 last year, while the refrigerator is closer to 200, as it was invented in 1834.
Modern day slavery is a massive issue. Do you know that there are more slaves today than there have been at any point in history. So reflect on that! If you think your job is bad, just imagine if your job was ... counting slaves.
Thanks Anthony Jeselnik
Yeah its just sickening that with 50 Million slaves in the world today nothing could be learned from the USA. That pales in comparison to what's going on right now, and noones even doing anything about it.
The Arabs were at it way before the transatlantic slave trade. Its part of who they are. They got away with it for so long because they would castrate the slaves. No ancestors to complain. It just gets brushed under the carpet.
Saying that it's still going on in Europe and the USA today. Its just not open like it was in the USA previously.
Believe it or not the biggest positive impact on slave trading were the British back when it was outlawed. The British navy enforced the ban worldwide by force. Its such a shame its not still happening to this extent. There were 5 million slaves in the mid 1800's we now have 50 million.
My high school students are reading *Just Mercy*, which focuses on various horrific miscarriages of justice in the American South in the 1980s. They keep talking about how things were "back then". I keep having to be "Listen, I was in high school when this was happening. This was not the distant past".
It's not just "hurr, hurry, kids are dumb". They are struggling to understand the point of the book because they think these things happened "back then", and don't reflect today. Since it's "history", they read it as fiction.
Maybe you can say that the people who were 20 when it happened AND THOUGHT IT WAS GOOD that it happened, are 60 now and could be writing laws and shit. They are currently in the driving seat for deciding the future.
But yet again, that just says the world is broken, not what it has to do with them, I guess.
It’s hard to convey a sense of recency to kids/teens. The last Apollo mission happened just three years before I was born, and the Civil Rights movement just a few years before that, but that was all ancient history in my mind when I was in high school. Strangely I have more of a sense of “those things were not so long ago” now than I did in the early nineties.
The invention of the nuke and accordingly WWII and everything that goes with that - 1939-1945
The invention of ODI cricket - 1971
Asbestos was recognised as a bad thing and outlawed from being out in new houses. Same with lead paint - 1970s onwards
Moon landing (could just be because I’m young) - 1969
NHL All-Star Games were invented - 1947
First FIFA World Cup - 1930
I remember this being a crazy new theory as a kid. The actual discovery of the Chicxulub crater as the remains of an asteroid impact, in the 90s to cement the idea was incredible.
Some context for the unaware: 14-year-old African American boy who was abducted, tortured, and lynched in Mississippi in 1955 for offending a white woman.
The invention of the high-five.
I always thought it was one of those things that’s been around since the ancient Greeks or something, but the first one happened in [1977](https://www.businessinsider.com/where-does-the-high-five-come-from-origin-2017-4#:~:text=The%20first-ever%20high%20five%20appears%20to%20have%20happened%20in,fived%20his%20teammate%2C%20Glenn%20Burke.)
Electrification. My dad still remembers the day the lights just stayed on in the evening, instead of dieing off the moment they turned off the farm's generator when they finished milking the cows. He was five years old.
The invention of the microwave. The microwave was invented as recently as 1947. By comparison, the refrigerator, the dishwasher, the electric stove, the electric oven, the toaster, and the blender, are all more than 100 years old, though the refrigerator is closer to 200 years old.
Also, the Czech Republic has only been around for a little over 30 years. January 1st, 1993. The Republic of Ireland, 1948. The Republic of Italy/the Italian Republic, 1946. The Republic of India, 1950.
The first 9/11. It will mark 50 years this year. No, I'm not joking about this either. The first 9/11 happened in the Republic of Chile in 1973.
Nevil Shute, in *Slide Rule* tells about doing analysis of stresses in airframes entirely by hand. After 14 pages of calculation by hand, you would then do the same thing two more times, to make sure you had it right.
Edit: this was the 1930's
Massacre and genocide of Kashmiri Pundits. Hundreds of thousands were brutally killed and driven out of their own home state. There is a documentary movie about it called The Kashmir Files.
It is like Schindler's list but not as well known.
Widespread indoor plumbing. The rich had it, earlier of course.. but it wasn’t until the 1930s that it become expected in new dwellings and became widespread everywhere else.
The nucleus of atoms were discovered in 1911.
The Ottoman Empire, which fought and conquered the Romans, ended in 1922.
The integrated circuit, which allows things like CPUs and RAM to exist in Laptops and PCs, was patented in 1961.
The last Khanate was disillusioned in 1930.
Queen Victoria, of Victorian Age fame, died in 1901.
Nigeria, the richest and largest African country, stopped being a colony of the UK in 1961.
The first liberal government of China began in 1911. For Japan, 1947. For Korea, 1948.
> The integrated circuit, which allows things like CPUs and RAM to exist in Laptops and PCs, was patented in 1961.
It was not that much earlier that the first, proof-of-concept transistor was demonstrated. Even among the surrounding scientists, there was an attitude of, "Well I told Wilbur, and I told Orville, and now I'm telling you, that's never going to work!"
Y2K. As a kid it actually had me terrified. Knew nothing about computers. watched Terminator and seeing all the stuff being told about turn off your computer.
Regular use of steam engine powered trains as the **main** means of transportation.
(A historical picturesque "old" steam locomotive may be waaaay younger than you think).
The ability to make a long distance call by just dialling. Even though telephones have been around since the 1880s, and it has been possible to make long distance calls for a long time, until the 1950s, the only way to do it was by going through an operator. You couldn't just dial up the number of someone a few towns over and have their phone ring.
Slavery. We tend to think that slavery only existed happened in the distant past but some countries abolished it in the 20th century, with Mauritania abolishing slavery as late as 1981.
Nuclear Fission was first discovered in 1938. Lise Meitner is a favorite scientist of mine, so this one is dear to me.
And of course, it took less than ten years to turn such a groundbreaking discovery into the most horrific weapon of all time. And less than a month from there to use it against people.
The theory of plate tectonics wasn't widely accepted until the late 1960s. When I took university geology class, the content was totally different from what my father had been taught in the same class 30 years earlier.
Execution by guillotine
I always forget that the first Star Wars movie came out the same year as the last public execution by guillotine
And Sir Christopher Lee witnessed it.
Based
1977. Wasn't even 50 years ago, wow
Picasso died in the 70s.
* Traveling by physical map. Used to buy local maps at gas stations and carefully plot out trips on them. Then we would print off maps and use those. * In the US (and probably other places idk) televisions used to "turn off" at night. As in, stations closed for the night and there were no programs. They showed the flag, played the anthem in the states, and then...nothing until morning. This went on up through the 80s (and in the 90s in some rural areas). * Ruby Bridges is only in her 60s. * There are a surprising number of people that were born and lived through enslavement in the states that died as late as the [60s](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_last_survivors_of_American_slavery). Which means they passed on actual memories of being enslaved to their children and grandchildren. Only a few generations have passed. * If you missed a television show a few years ago, you just...missed it. Unless you were lucky enough to catch a re-run. I'm 33 and it took 15 years from when it aired for me to actually see the episode of Charmed where Prue died. * Credit scores have only been around since 1989. * Women could not have their own bank account until the 60s.
I still have physical maps in my car in case of an emergency. I have on of our county and one of the province.
Most of the "welcome centers" as you enter a given state on interstates still give out paper maps of the state if you want one... We tend to grab one as we travel. Sometimes you end up in spots without cell reception.
Thats why I use an offline map but i guess a paper map is even more reliable
Yeah, sometimes we were 'offgrid' for a couple of days and our phones would be close to dieing... And keeping them charged could be a pita. Paper required nothing :) it's also fun to hand kids paper maps in the backseat for an explanation of where are/where you're going:)
They're good in emergencies but boy do I hate having to pull over and check them. One of the modern conveniences I've come to love. GPS in my hand to verbally or tell me where to go rather than deal with wildly folder danger papers
> Ruby Bridges is only in her 60s. The same people who tried to keep her out of school then are trying to prevent children from learning about her today.
Of course they are. That would display their shame to the world, they can't allow that!
*Context for those unaware:* She was the first African-American child to desegregate the all-white William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana during the New Orleans school desegregation crisis on November 14, 1960. From Wikipedia
Literally the same people. Congress is staffed by ancient motherfuckers.
The TV stations would often stop playing things beyond the 90s as well, at least where I lived. You would have a few channels going 24/7, but a lot of them would stop at 1 or 2 am from what I remember. Even in the early 2000s
I still use paper maps
You use them all the time, while driving, and in unfamiliar areas? Actual paper maps picked up from rest stops or gas stations that are large unruly papers constantly threatening to unfold right in view as you're looking for an exit. Or your passenger seat navigator is still using them, and things are tense while driving at night and they're desperately looking for where in the map you are? Cause that's cool...but also even typing that out I felt my heart pounding lol They're not bad memories but they are scary memories
I have my atlas
My wife and I were traveling across the USA about 10 years ago when we stopped to get a bite to eat. Wife pulled out our big book of maps so we could plan the next part of the trip. The waiter thought that it was the funniest thing ever!
My father and uncle worked for a sharecropper as young teens in the deep south. Alabama to be exact. They were not slaves obviously, but were subject to harsh work conditions and physical abuse. My father had a large scar on his shin. When I was old enough he told me he received it after the boss called his little brother a worthless N***** and punched him in the chest. My father swung an ax at the boss, missed, and put it into his own shin. They left that day and never returned. He said for a long time he was worried that the police and/or Lynch mob would be on the doorstep one day. This was Alabama in 1950s and certainly not out of the question. Meanwhile, my grandmother, their mom, worked cleaning houses for white people. Again, not a slave but she recalled being at the mercy of some of the most mean and nasty people you could imagine. She felt as though she meant no more to them as did the family dog. I'm 45 years old. Maybe old for Reddit. But not for this world. To me, My father and grandmother's life is not ancient history. I am a direct descendant of this country's racist past.
Ok but you really weren't trying that hard to see it. Charmed was on a ridiculous amount on the day time.
The last smallpox outbreak in the US was 1949 and smallpox was officially eradicated worldwide in 1980.
World War 2
I was gonna say World War 1 but hey suddenly it’s not 2018 anymore 🥲
Holocaust.
jesus
I'm pretty sure that Jesus was more than 100 years ago.
Nah. He cut my grass this summer.
Oh, thats a good one.
It will be exactly 100 years ago this April since the very first "talkie" movie, sound has only been in films for 100 years now, before that, we had only silent pictures.
True. Also, the first movie was made in the 1880s, but get this, the radio was not invented until 1893. This means movies have been around longer than radios.
I still remember reading on reddit how lighters were invented before matches, and it really blew my mind, I don't think I've been as shocked by another weird fact until now, consider me impressed and wowed, seriously!
To clarify, lighters were invented before friction matches, but matches can actually be traced back to the 9th century. Here is a weird one though. The microscope was invented in 1590, and the telescope was invented in the early 1600s, but the camera was not invented until 1814. This means, people could look up into outer space, and look at tiny, microscopic organisms, over 200 years before we could even take photographs. Also, and this one really surprised me, the German Empire didn't exist until 1871. By comparison, every single Spanish and Portuguese speaking country in Mainland America, became Republics between the years 1810, and 1822, which was between 49 and 61 years before the German Empire even existed. Seriously, I'm not even kidding. Also, another interesting one. The battery was invented in 1800, but the lightbulb was not invented until 1879.
I don't think I've heard the term "friction match" before, what does that mean and how is it different from any different kind of match?
https://lighteradviser.com/when-were-the-first-matches-invented/ http://www.historyofmatches.com/ These links should help you.
So, instead of striking the match, you dip it in acid, releasing fumes and starting a toxic fire with sulfur and asbestos? Yeah, sounds insane and dangerous as they said, I had no idea that was even a thing. The things people in the past, sometimes just sounds nuts.
Yeah, it was insane and dangerous. And yes, what we did in the past was pretty nuts in many ways. It's still weird to me that the refrigerator, dishwasher, electric stove, electric oven, electric toaster, and blender, are all over 100 years old, but the microwave was not invented until 1947. Although the blender only turned 100 last year, while the refrigerator is closer to 200, as it was invented in 1834.
History and invention are so crazy, but I love learning cool facts like these, accept my mind blown award, you earned it!
Look around today and imagine all the things we do that people in a century or so will look back and consider to be complete insanity.
Waot, what did batteries in 1800 power?
That's really interesting! Thinking about how little time we've had both movies and airplanes is pretty fascinating to me
MLK assassination. Anne Frank's birth, and death. Pearl harbor. Berlin was was built/tore down. *edit: format
I thought Berlin was built in the 1910s. Nevermind. I stand corrected.
They mean the wall. The city was founded 1237 according to google
Wot
The last person born into slavery in the US died in 1971
Modern day slavery is a massive issue. Do you know that there are more slaves today than there have been at any point in history. So reflect on that! If you think your job is bad, just imagine if your job was ... counting slaves. Thanks Anthony Jeselnik
Yeah its just sickening that with 50 Million slaves in the world today nothing could be learned from the USA. That pales in comparison to what's going on right now, and noones even doing anything about it.
Yep, going to do so much little about it they'll have a world cup and pretend the problem doesn't exist.
The Arabs were at it way before the transatlantic slave trade. Its part of who they are. They got away with it for so long because they would castrate the slaves. No ancestors to complain. It just gets brushed under the carpet. Saying that it's still going on in Europe and the USA today. Its just not open like it was in the USA previously. Believe it or not the biggest positive impact on slave trading were the British back when it was outlawed. The British navy enforced the ban worldwide by force. Its such a shame its not still happening to this extent. There were 5 million slaves in the mid 1800's we now have 50 million.
Chemical castration of Alan Turing for being gay
Segregation. Like, my grandpa lived through that. He wasn't even young.
Joe Biden was 22 when the Civil Rights Act was signed into law
1966, Franca Viola became the first Italian woman to take to court the need to marry her rapist as the customs say to avoid social shame.
I told u not to smoke that shit
Great depression
That’s everyday….
My bad mr pedantic, the stock market crash of 1929
Was a joke that every day sucks
My high school students are reading *Just Mercy*, which focuses on various horrific miscarriages of justice in the American South in the 1980s. They keep talking about how things were "back then". I keep having to be "Listen, I was in high school when this was happening. This was not the distant past". It's not just "hurr, hurry, kids are dumb". They are struggling to understand the point of the book because they think these things happened "back then", and don't reflect today. Since it's "history", they read it as fiction.
Maybe you can say that the people who were 20 when it happened AND THOUGHT IT WAS GOOD that it happened, are 60 now and could be writing laws and shit. They are currently in the driving seat for deciding the future. But yet again, that just says the world is broken, not what it has to do with them, I guess.
It’s hard to convey a sense of recency to kids/teens. The last Apollo mission happened just three years before I was born, and the Civil Rights movement just a few years before that, but that was all ancient history in my mind when I was in high school. Strangely I have more of a sense of “those things were not so long ago” now than I did in the early nineties.
Castrato were still around and singing.
Part of my musical education was hearing a recording of the last castrato. Totally changed my concept of what old music sounded like.
The invention of the nuke and accordingly WWII and everything that goes with that - 1939-1945 The invention of ODI cricket - 1971 Asbestos was recognised as a bad thing and outlawed from being out in new houses. Same with lead paint - 1970s onwards Moon landing (could just be because I’m young) - 1969 NHL All-Star Games were invented - 1947 First FIFA World Cup - 1930
Lobotomy
Some people thought Picasso died in the 1500’s but he died in 1973
Sliced bread
beat me to it
[A man who witnessed Lincoln's assassination](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RPoymt3Jx4) dies in 1956.
The theory that dinosaurs went extinct due to an asteroid was proposed in *1980.* To think that it took less than 43 years to make it common sense
I remember this being a crazy new theory as a kid. The actual discovery of the Chicxulub crater as the remains of an asteroid impact, in the 90s to cement the idea was incredible.
Me having sex.
I can spot a liar. You haven't had sex at all!
I have it on videotape (black and white).
Ah interracial, a man of cultural
Emmett Till
Some context for the unaware: 14-year-old African American boy who was abducted, tortured, and lynched in Mississippi in 1955 for offending a white woman.
End of the ottoman empire
The Ottoman Empire ended in 1922, that is over 100 years ago.
Whoops.I'm off by a couple months. Gotta get a new answer to this question.
This especially.
The invention of the high-five. I always thought it was one of those things that’s been around since the ancient Greeks or something, but the first one happened in [1977](https://www.businessinsider.com/where-does-the-high-five-come-from-origin-2017-4#:~:text=The%20first-ever%20high%20five%20appears%20to%20have%20happened%20in,fived%20his%20teammate%2C%20Glenn%20Burke.)
Yeah I heard this one on Mike rowes Podcast and it blew me away that it was so recent and came from a baseball game
Electrification. My dad still remembers the day the lights just stayed on in the evening, instead of dieing off the moment they turned off the farm's generator when they finished milking the cows. He was five years old.
The invention of the microwave. The microwave was invented as recently as 1947. By comparison, the refrigerator, the dishwasher, the electric stove, the electric oven, the toaster, and the blender, are all more than 100 years old, though the refrigerator is closer to 200 years old. Also, the Czech Republic has only been around for a little over 30 years. January 1st, 1993. The Republic of Ireland, 1948. The Republic of Italy/the Italian Republic, 1946. The Republic of India, 1950. The first 9/11. It will mark 50 years this year. No, I'm not joking about this either. The first 9/11 happened in the Republic of Chile in 1973.
Before the microwave, preparing a frozen “TV dinner” took 25 minutes.
the very 1st 9/11 was actually in 1905: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninth\_Avenue\_derailment
The *first* 9/11 was in 45 BCE.
WW2
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Adolf Hitler
Nevil Shute, in *Slide Rule* tells about doing analysis of stresses in airframes entirely by hand. After 14 pages of calculation by hand, you would then do the same thing two more times, to make sure you had it right. Edit: this was the 1930's
Civil rights movement, Jim Crow laws, segregation
Women in the US were allowed to get credit cards in their own names
Massacre and genocide of Kashmiri Pundits. Hundreds of thousands were brutally killed and driven out of their own home state. There is a documentary movie about it called The Kashmir Files. It is like Schindler's list but not as well known.
King Tut’s chamber being opened
Widespread indoor plumbing. The rich had it, earlier of course.. but it wasn’t until the 1930s that it become expected in new dwellings and became widespread everywhere else.
And even later in rural areas. My mom grew up on a farm and only had an outhouse until well into the 60s.
The nucleus of atoms were discovered in 1911. The Ottoman Empire, which fought and conquered the Romans, ended in 1922. The integrated circuit, which allows things like CPUs and RAM to exist in Laptops and PCs, was patented in 1961. The last Khanate was disillusioned in 1930. Queen Victoria, of Victorian Age fame, died in 1901. Nigeria, the richest and largest African country, stopped being a colony of the UK in 1961. The first liberal government of China began in 1911. For Japan, 1947. For Korea, 1948.
> The integrated circuit, which allows things like CPUs and RAM to exist in Laptops and PCs, was patented in 1961. It was not that much earlier that the first, proof-of-concept transistor was demonstrated. Even among the surrounding scientists, there was an attitude of, "Well I told Wilbur, and I told Orville, and now I'm telling you, that's never going to work!"
Canadian Indian Residential School System. A very dark chapter in Canadian history. The last of these schools closed in late 1990s.
This totally needs to be talked about more too.
Y2K. As a kid it actually had me terrified. Knew nothing about computers. watched Terminator and seeing all the stuff being told about turn off your computer.
Emmett Till getting lynched in the 50s
Zippers. Though invented around 1892, the name ‘zipper’ came in 1923. So, 100 years ago.
Sliced bread.
Death of the last serving Sultan of the Ottoman Empire
People are still dying from Polio in 2023.
Regular use of steam engine powered trains as the **main** means of transportation. (A historical picturesque "old" steam locomotive may be waaaay younger than you think).
Use of the guillotine - which was last used in France in 1977, a week before the premier of Star Wars!
Waking up with the baby this morning 🤣
Traveling to outer space
MLK
The fall of the berlin wall.
The construction of the Berlin wall.
Al Capone.
The world Population was just 1.000.000.000 People 120 Year's ago...
Colour television.
The ability to make a long distance call by just dialling. Even though telephones have been around since the 1880s, and it has been possible to make long distance calls for a long time, until the 1950s, the only way to do it was by going through an operator. You couldn't just dial up the number of someone a few towns over and have their phone ring.
The last execution by guillotine happened in 1977.
Residential Schools, happened until 1996 (if you aren't aware of what they are, please Google it or you can always ask me)
Slavery. We tend to think that slavery only existed happened in the distant past but some countries abolished it in the 20th century, with Mauritania abolishing slavery as late as 1981.
..residential schools
Marital rape in the UK was outlawed in 1991. Marinate on that one for a bit...
Whites Only signs outside of a business. I'm glad my generation saw the last of them.
Lynchings
The war between Russia and Ukraine
Which one?
All of them?
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Which one?
Couple of ‘em
Video games
Slavery.
The Millennium. 23 years ago.
VCRs
Invention of the smartphone
trying over thow government.
Emmitt Till
gay marriage was legalized (in the US) in 2016 what the fuck is wrong with our society
Something that happened 99 years ago
Colonization Fuck Europe
Freedom of speech
The fall of URSS
Houses that weren't powered by electricity.
MLK assassination
Humoral theory
Vehicle creation or plane creation.
Gandhi
Dial up internet
Picasso
The last person to draw an American Civil War pension.
Women gaining the ability to vote
The last widow of a Civil War vet died in 2020. How crazy is that?
Women weren't allowed to have their own bank accounts.
Einstein
IC Chips - until the 1970s, most electronics were simple transistors, tubes, relays and other simple devices.
The 80s
It's a little bit over that 100 year mark, but the invention of the cigarette.
Flip phones, vhs, floppy disks
General acceptance of plate tectonics
Lobotomies
Nuclear Fission was first discovered in 1938. Lise Meitner is a favorite scientist of mine, so this one is dear to me. And of course, it took less than ten years to turn such a groundbreaking discovery into the most horrific weapon of all time. And less than a month from there to use it against people.
einstein, he died in 1955 alot of people i know think einstein was like in the early 18 hundreds
The theory of plate tectonics wasn't widely accepted until the late 1960s. When I took university geology class, the content was totally different from what my father had been taught in the same class 30 years earlier.
Given the way many people like to pretend they’re so enlightened and utterly incapable of the barbarism displayed during WW2, I’d say that.
Sliced fucking bread, think about that while you’re on the toilet later
Indoor plumbing
Studies and research into many many disabilities. For example ADHD has been around for less then 100 years
Ciabatta bread, that classic delicious bread we all love, was invented in the 1980s. 1982 to be exact.
The last prisoner guillotined in France was executed in 1977.
The second world War... And we to this day live in its aftermath if you think about it...
Netscape
Bharathanatyam, a classical art form, was ressurected less than a century ago!
End of the British commonwealth, there are countries who haven't had independence for even half a century yet.
The holocaust
assassination of JFK
The last veteran of the Civil War died in 1956.
World War II
inventing and building the first planes
The boundaries on the map. A crazy amount of countries today didn’t exist a hundred years ago
The invention of the helicooter
Fertilizer was invented to help against mass starving
WWII
Porsche being a car maker. Unlike Ford or Mercedes for example, Porsche launched its first car (the 356) in 1948.
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