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you liked live?

2007-03-18 13:29:39 · 2 answers · asked by Chris 6 in Arts & Humanities History

or time you liked live?

2007-03-18 13:47:02 · update #1

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The past is not the good thing some people might think. It was only about 20 years ago that there was such a thing as a personal computer - forget Internet, forget cinema quality games and so on. My uncle was an antique car hobbyist, and I got to ride in a variety of really, really old cars - you had to get in front of them and crank the engine over by hand and run back to the steering wheel to adjust the spark and the throttle and the choke.
He also had a couple other antique machines, like an Edison phonograph with these cylinders that you put onto it and a big fat steel needle ran through the grooves and made sounds through a big metal megaphone for like 1 and 1/2 minutes.

Going back farther, there would be no electric lights, only gas or candles, no running water - you had to pump it by hand from a well - no indoor toilets, and going back far enough and you would not even have toilet paper.

You would not be hearing music that you didn't make your self, if you were rich enough to own an instrument, unless you were lucky to attend a concert or get to a local dance where there was a musician or two.

People are complaining that they took two days to get from Chicago to Boston, but if you told somebody in the 1800's that you got from Chicago to Boston in two days, they wouldn't believe you.

And that's only if you went back a hundred years. Look around at what you have right there at home and let's say you took it all back 100 years. People would not only be amazed, but regard you as one of the richest persons in the world.

2007-03-18 13:52:30 · answer #1 · answered by sonyack 6 · 0 0

An epoch is a division of a geologic period; it is the smallest division of geologic time, lasting several million years. ERA Two or more geological periods comprise an Era, which is hundreds of millions of years in duration.

2007-03-18 20:32:12 · answer #2 · answered by ivory_plr 4 · 0 0

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