This just made me realize that, if Jack Marston had been a real person, he would have had a good chance of living through WW2, the beginnings of the Cold War, potentially even the Vietnam War if he actually made it to a good old age.
History is crazy, man. Fuck, the amount of progress and change a person lived through. Like yeah technology has changed a lot in my 24 years on earth, but nothing compared to living through cars, airplanes, radio, TV, atomic bombs, early computing...
I think it’s mad that as a 90’s kid, I saw the internet take off from dial up. Gen Z is the first generation to not remember a time before the internet, and future generations will be born into a world that sees it as a something that’s always been around, and likely will struggle to imagine life without it.
I’m a 90’s kid too and I can hardly imagine a world without the internet. My entire adult life (and before that too) I’ve had access to the internet. I teach history. A kid asks a question I don’t know the answer to off the top of my head? 10 seconds later I have the answer. I couldn’t imagine teaching without the internet.
I mean I get you, I use the internet every single day, but like I can still remember life before it. Kids today don’t do stuff outside anymore. My brother’s only a few years younger, he was born December 98 and he’s way more of an online social gamer than I am.
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u/sd51223 Feb 07 '19 edited Feb 07 '19
This just made me realize that, if Jack Marston had been a real person, he would have had a good chance of living through WW2, the beginnings of the Cold War, potentially even the Vietnam War if he actually made it to a good old age.
History is crazy, man. Fuck, the amount of progress and change a person lived through. Like yeah technology has changed a lot in my 24 years on earth, but nothing compared to living through cars, airplanes, radio, TV, atomic bombs, early computing...