From 1843 to 1865, Abraham Lincoln could have sent a fax to a samurai.
It was brought up in the movie, "Lincoln", that the "Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection" by Charles Darwin was already published at the height of the US Civil War. Somehow, I disassociate the two events as being on completely different time period.
Lincoln and Darwin were born in the same year, 1809.
And to really blow your mind: Charles Dickens was born 3 years later, and not, say, a hundred years before.
Did Japan have any fax lines though? Unless you're talking about a samurai that left Japan
He was visiting the US
At no point in my HS history class did our teacher mention that she was alive and living a few hours away from us.
To be fair, I'd say teaching you guys should be proof enough of her non-corpse status that she didn't have to tell you outright 🤷
If you were born in 1976 or earlier, your birthday is closer to the production of the Ford Model T than it is to today. Have a nice day :)
I miss horns that went auUUUga
If you were born that long ago, youre probably in a retirement homa and not on Lemmy
That's not even 50 years ago lmao
Holy fuck I hope you don't teach simple arithmetic
I bet the same type of person who became a radio nerd in retirement also wound up here if they went into computers instead.
I doubt 48 year olds are in retirement homes
I've posted about this before but Rosa Parks lived long enough to sue OutKast in 1999 over their use of her name in their song 'Rosa Parks'.
Per the link it isn't clear if she wanted to sue or if it was her caretaker and legal representation. I really hope it wasn't her idea.
I was around for all of this, and I know this. But it still seems very strange.
That also means, if Anne Frank and MLK, were alive today, they would only be in their 90s.
95, to be precise. Only two years older than William Shatner.
And younger than Jimmy Carter
If only she hadn't bought that drum kit.
Yeah, people often forget how long people live after major events in history and are surprised the underlying issues haven't gone away. We still have people from the wrong side of the civil rights movement in leadership positions.
Imagine if we still had racism in the distant futuristic year of 2000 ...
The Doritos Locos taco at Taco Bell has been around longer than the Confederate States of America ever was.
Buuut, the Confederacy lasted twice as long as Pepsi Crystal.
Most things fit that description. I have tires on my truck that fit that description.
I'm an older millennial, born 1984, recently turned 40.
My gramps was born 1909. Not only was he alive during WW2, he was of fighting age. Not only did he fight in WW2, he was actually one of the oldest guys in his unit, seeing as he was over 30 when he got drafted.
WW2 and other first half of the 20th century shit isn't anywhere as far back in time as it feels it is.
I remember my great-grandma talking about picking cotton in the field one day, and being scared out of her mind when an airplane flew over her head. She'd come to Texas from California on a covered wagon, had never lived in a home with electricity, and hadn't heard about the flying machine being invented.
I helped her set up an email account about a year before she died.
You and I were both born closer to WW2 than to today.
What always gets me is Pablo Picasso died in 1973. For some reason I always thought he was around a century or two earlier.
I think it's because we always imagine artists as being from the olden times.
Yeah, I considered him a Renaissance artist in my mind.
Which means that Shrek could have been Rosa Parks's favorite movie of all time.
I just want to know what her favorite Pokemon was
Please. It's was clearly diglet.
Same year as Barbara Walters. But also Audrey Hepburn and Grace Kelly. Yasser Arafat. Ed Asner. June Carter Cash. And, famousbirthdays.com tells me, TikTok's Gangsta Grandma.
Edit: They were all born the same year Wyatt Earp died.
THE FUCK!
Your title got me too.
I've always found it interesting how a black and white photo can distort our perception of when something happened.
Was researching million man March for a presentation. Some of the first pictures were in bnw even though it happened in the 90s.
My conspiracy side says it's deliberate. 🤷♂️
Black and white film remained popular for decades after color film because it had different properties and could be easier to work with. Some photographers also preferred the aesthetic. Before digital photography became as good as film, B&W continued to be used in professional photography.
Appreciated. 👍
Oh it gets better (or worse?) there are plenty of color photographs from Dr King's 1963 march and speech. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/kennethbachor/rare-color-martin-luther-king-photos
At least this is somewhat more excusable since newspapers were still mostly using B&W. The color photos would have been for the weekly or monthly news magazines which were using color.
It's not film, but the Apple II (1971) used a monochromatic display or something for technical reasons. I'm trying to find the quote but unfortunately I can't so this is from memory. It was something like going with black and white allowed them a better frame rate/resolution over color (and for cheaper).
It's possible similar tradeoffs existed for monochromatic film into the '90s.
The Apple II's big selling point, compared to the other two big brands introduced in 1977 (the Radio Shack TRS-80 and Commodore PET) was colour.
But it was a weird and colour scheme that took advantage of clever Wozniak hacks to make it viable on a cheap machine. Good video hardware, and enough memory for the colour display, were spendy. That's why even into the 1980s you'd have machines like the ZX Spectrum with limitations like "every 8x8 block can only have 2 colours" which used less memory, and 40-column screens that were readable on TVs instead of dedicated high-res monitors..
'Member that song "74-75" by The Connells? That was a big hit in the Nineties.
We're now at 31 years after the release of this single and 49 years after the class of 1975 graduated.
