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[–] 3arn0wl@lemmy.world 63 points 2 years ago (2 children)

... so not much has changed in a hundred years then.

[–] Rozauhtuno@lemmy.blahaj.zone 86 points 2 years ago

Now we also have climate dread and mass surveillance.

[–] _number8_@lemmy.world 56 points 2 years ago (4 children)

one of the Good subs was called 100YearsAgo, people post HQ scans of old newspapers and photos from today in 1923. it's very fascinating seeing how language changed / didn't change, the attitudes around politics, women, prohibition, the minimum wage, etc

[–] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Wow I wish they were on her

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That's what..he said? 🤷

[–] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

Whoops, I ment here

[–] samus12345@lemm.ee 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I found this one to be particularly interesting. Based Jule Cantwell and Helen Unger was right on with "lots" - it remains quiet popular!

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I also like that they list Helen's profession as "home girl ", which has since become a slang term itself, the original use being more or less extinct 😁

[–] Ryumast3r@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Curious what that profession actually is, is it a wife/"homemaker"? Or a paid profession that I couldn't find on Google? I really tried to find that phrasing but in my defense I'm drunk and also Google sucks nowadays.

[–] evranch@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 years ago

I would guess she is simply a girl who hasn't left home yet?

Today she would probably be a student, but she isn't studying anything. Maybe she plans to become a housewife rather than train for a career, as that was a viable "career path" in those days.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

I think maybe a kind of servant that work around the house as in when a fancy lady would say "You must be exhausted from all that fox trotting! I'll have the girl run you a bath" 🤷

[–] Ryumast3r@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That's a good idea for a lemmy community. Maybe I'll set one up for that.

[–] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago

I just set up a reposter bot

!100yearsago@sh.itjust.works

[–] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Ok actually, I just wrote a bot that reposts pictures from the subreddit to a Lemmy community, so you can still have them in your feed :-D

!100yearsago@sh.itjust.works

[–] theoretiker@feddit.de 42 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I just want to add that currently the extremist right polls quite high in Germany. In some states its the second largest party.

[–] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 years ago

At least Germany now has a more robustly designed constitution

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 36 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Plus fascism was on the rise!

[–] uzzi@lemm.ee 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)
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[–] GombeenSysadmin@feddit.uk 33 points 2 years ago

Don’t forget, they were just out of a worldwide pandemic that killed tens of millions.

[–] Nerorero@lemmy.blahaj.zone 21 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Don't forget the virus at the start of the 20s....

[–] Something_Complex@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

Hey at least we skipped the first

[–] Resol@lemmy.world 19 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The Y2K bug means we're actually living in 1923 again. Which means that the BBC was just founded, silent films are still around, and the Ottoman Empire just collapsed. Also, color isn't invented yet.

So how am I able to post this comment? Idk, use your imagination, I guess.

[–] tupewe@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 2 years ago

Sorry I collapsed the Ottoman Empire I didn't mean to :(

[–] bouh@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago

The rampant fascism is missing from the list. But all good otherwise.

Marx remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He did add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.

[–] Squirrel@thelemmy.club 15 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The more things change, the more they stay the same...

[–] FaeDrifter@midwest.social 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

All of this has happened before, and it will all happen again.

[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 years ago

So say we all!

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[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Electro swing is back in vouge too

[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That's the big difference between the 1920s and 2020s. The 1920s had swing, but now that we're in the future we have electro swing! It changes everything

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

Harambe died for our electro-swing

[–] VinesNFluff@pawb.social 10 points 2 years ago

The only major difference between THESE twenties and THOSE twenties is that people had nicer clothes back then. :P

[–] Denvil@lemmy.one 10 points 2 years ago

A bygone era yes

[–] BrisvegasLukass@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago
[–] stagen@feddit.dk 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Ghost has a fantastic song covering this exact topic with the exact same title.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQ-pxlKgiTI

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I see Wales is reducing their speed limits to 20mph